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Jahangir welcomes Shah 'Abbas in a ceremonial court scene attended by figures, offerings, winged forms, and golden emblems.
The record
This is diplomacy rendered as spectacle. The source record describes the painting's connection to Mughal interest in naturalistic portraiture and to Bishn Das's embassy to Shah Abbas I's court. Every figure, vessel, and symbol helps stage the relationship between rulers.
- Artist
- Abu'l Hasan; attribution also recorded to Bishandas
- Date
- ca. 1618
- Medium
- Not provided in the supplied source excerpt
- Dimensions
- Not provided in the supplied source excerpt
- Culture / place
- Mughal India
- Current context
- Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Details to carry with you
- The work is dated to around 1618.
- The supplied record identifies the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
- The artist attribution is recorded as Abu'l Hasan, with Bishandas also noted in the file description.
