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Portrait of Raja Sangram of Gorakhpur

Indian
Mughal period
early 17th century
Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque wartercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 16.3 × 8.8 cm (6 7/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.670
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsInscription in Persian: "Portrait of Raja Sangram, a good likeness."
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).