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17 juillet 2019

A folio from the de Luynes album, Mughal India, Recto attributable to Hiranand circa 1600

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Lot 11. A folio from the de Luynes album, Mughal India, Recto attributable to Hiranand circa 1600. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, recto depicting a mounted prince hawking, verso a court scene with jesters after a European print, within colored borders on cream album leaf. Recto painting 12 7/8 x 8 ¼ ins. (31.5 x 21 cm.); verso painting 7 1/8 x 4 ½ ins. (18 x 11.5 cm.); folio 18 1/8 x 12 5/8 ins. (46 x 32 cm.). Estimate USD 40,000 - USD 60,000Price realised USD 90,000© Christie's Images Ltd 2019

Provenance: The family collection of the Ducs de Luynes, by 1843, sold Christie’s, London, 4 October 2012, lot 167.

LiteratureLosty 2013C, cat. 4, pp. 76–79.

Note: The hunting scene can be attributed to the artist Hiranand dating to circa 1600. The main figures, particularly the attendant carrying a gun in the foreground have quite high foreheads and expressive features. A good comparison can be made with a work attributed to Hiranand in the Freer Gallery of Art from the Akbarnama dated to circa 1604, (inv.1952.31; Beach, 1981, cat. no.12f). The fine modeling of both the facial features and the delicate outlines of this European inspired scene make this a remarkably refined work of its time. A European inspired biblical scene by the Mughal artist Kesu Das attributed to circa 1590 depicts figures with expressive gestures very similar to the striking figures present in our painting. It has been suggested that the current lot is a Deccani rather than Mughal copy of a European original. However the composition and in particular the foreground with two figures depicted only from their head and shoulders upwards outside the walled compound is distinctly Mughal.

Christie's. Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, New York, 19 June 2019

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