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Calligraphy (recto); A Buffalo Fighting a Lioness (verso)
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Calligraphy (recto); A Buffalo Fighting a Lioness (verso)

Album TitleMuraqqa Gulshan
Attributed to Farrukh Chela (Indian, active ca. 1585 - 1604)
Calligrapher Mir Ali Al-sultani (Indian, active ca. 1585 - 1604)
Datelate 16th century
MediumWatercolor and gold paint on paper
DimensionsImage: 5 3/4 x 3 5/16 inches (14.61 x 8.41 cm)
Sheet: 16 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches (42.24 x 26.67 cm)
Framed: 26 7/8 x 20 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches (68.25 x 52.71 x 3.51 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-12/2 A,B
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

The Art of Greater India: 3000 B.C. – 1800 A.D., Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, March 1 to April 16, 1950, no. 99 as Leaf From a Jahangir Album, “Murakka’ Gulshan”.

 

Appaloosa: The Spotted Horse in Art and History, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, January 25-March 31, 1963, hors cat.

The Art of Mughal India, The Asia House Gallery, New York, January 15-March 25, 1964, no. 27 as Folio from an Album Made for Jahangir.

The Grand Mughals: Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 25-November 5, 1978; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, November 20, 1978-January 5, 1979; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 2-March 25, 1979; Asia House Gallery, New York, April 19-June 10, 1979, no. 6.

Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 31, 2013-April 27, 2014, no cat.

More Than Words: The Art of Calligraphy Across Asia, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 21, 2017-July 8, 2018, no cat.

Provenance

With Paul Mallon (1884-1975), Paris and New York, by 1948;

Purchased from Paul Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

Published References

“Masterpiece of the Month,” in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts Gallery News 15, no. 3 (January 1949), (repro.).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art of Greater India: 3000 B.C.-2800 A.D., edited by Henry Trubner, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1950), 59-60, plate 99, (repro; reproduced upside down).

Stuart C. Welch, The Art of Mughal India: Painting and Precious Objects, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1963), 166, plate 27, (repro.).

Milo Cleveland Beach, The Grand Mughals: Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660, exh. cat. (Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978), 43-51, (repro.).


Suzanne Marshall, “The Poet and the Prince—A Moghul Painting from the Album of an Imperial Connoisseur” in The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 5 (November 1978): 7-25 (repro.).


Rekha Morris, “Some Additions to the Known Corpus of Paintings by the Mughal Artist Farrukh Chela” in Ars Orientalis 13 (June 1983): 135-151, (repro.).


Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 77, 388 (repro.).


Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 274 (repro.).


Susan Stronge, “The Gulshan Album” in Muraqqa’: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library (Alexandria, VA: Art Services International), 78, (repro.).


Hamama Tul Bushra, Gulshan Muraqqa’: An Imperial Discretion (Kansas City: University of Missouri—Kansas City, 2015), (repro.).


Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Kimberly Masteller, Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kanas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2016), 13, 82-89, (repro.).


Martin James Lorber, “More Thank Words,” in Asian Art:  The Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries (March 2018): 43.




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