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Portrait of a gentleman smoking hookah
North India, Mughal a…
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Portrait of a gentleman smoking hookah
North India, Mughal a…
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,500 - €4,500
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Description
Portrait of a gentleman smoking hookah
North India, Mughal art, late 18th century
Double-sided album page (painting and calligraphy). Opaque pigments, ink and gold on paper; wide deep blue margins enhanced with floral scrolls drawn in gold.
On the recto, a sovereign dressed in a floral jama embellished with gold and wearing a turban adorned with pearls is depicted sitting cross-legged on a carpet, smoking a hookah under a pavilion with white architecture; at his side, a servant holds a chauri (fan with a handle), a traditional attribute of imperial sovereignty.
On the reverse, a Persian quatrain calligraphed in nasta'liq, accompanied by a library stamp.
Page: 34 x 23 cm (13.4 x 9.1 in.); painting: 19 x 14 cm (7.5 x 5.5 in.)
Seal: Mohr-e Kotobkhane-ye Razi al-Din, sane 1300 ("Library of Razi al-Din, year 1300 H.").
A nobleman smoking the hookah, album leaf with a Persian nasta'liq quatrain on the verso, bearing the seal's library of Razi al-Din, North India, Mughal, late 18th century.
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