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Detail of Shah Jahan on Horseback in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019

Detail of Shah Jahan on Horseback in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019
"Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50


Object Details

Artist: Painting by Payag (Indian, active ca. 1591–1658)

Calligrapher: Mir 'Ali Haravi (d. ca. 1550)

Title: "Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Date: verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50

Geography: Attributed to India

Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions: H. 15 5/16 in. (38.9 cm)
W. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm)

Classification: Codices

Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955

Accession Number: 55.121.10.21

Payag worked for the emperors Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan over the course of a remarkably long, seven-decade career, and his brother Balchand was also a talented painter with whom he collaborated on a handful of paintings. The attribution of this portrait to Payag, written in the border below the painting by Shah Jahan, was recently confirmed by the discovery of a microscopic signature on the golden tip of the emperor’s bow.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451267

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