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Portrait of Naha Chand Mian
Indian
Mughal period
18th century
Object Place: Northern India
Medium/Technique
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 14.7 × 7.5 cm (5 13/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2668
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsOn front, at top, identifications of subject in Persian and Devenagari, and the number 12
ProvenanceAbout 1910, acquired from Balak Ram Sah of Garhwal (Srinagar), great grandson of Mola Ram, by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947) [1]; by 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1930, Part VI, page 96.
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1930, Part VI, page 96.