
Enrica Medugno
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Provenance
Formerly in the Shiv Kumar Chirimar collection, Amsterdam.
Exhibited and Published
Joachim Bautze, Indian Miniature Paintings, c. 1590–c. 1850, Galerie Saundarya Lahari, Amsterdam 1987, pp. 19-20, no. 5.
The present painting is reminiscent of a miniature of which an engraving was already published in Amsterdam in 1726 in the chapter 'Levens des Groote Mogols', Volume IV, Book 2 of F. Valentyn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, with the following interpretation 'Mier Sumla, Nabab, of Valdheer van AURANG-ZEB, in zyn vrouwen-Timmer, met zyne Vrouwen zig vermaakende'. It seems perhaps unlikely that Mir Jumla, the famous general of Aurangzeb, would have allowed such a painting to be done.