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| Keywords: Album Page with Three Poems (6125081096).jpg en Series Title The Polier Album Display Artist Muhammad Ali Media Support Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Creation Date 1781 Creation Place/Subject India State-Province Uttar Pradesh Court Mughal School Late Mughal Display Dimensions 17 13/32 in x 24 3/32 in 44 2 cm x 61 2 cm Credit Line Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Accession Number 1990 414 Collection http //www sdmart org/art/our-collection/asian-art The San Diego Museum of Art Label Copy During the eighteenth century the cultural center of the state of Awadh Oudh was Lucknow This was where the capital was situated except during the period 1765-75 when it was transferred to Faizabad The Mughal empire was in steep decline and when the governor of Awadh set himself up as an autonomous ruler providing a relatively stable environment compared to the disarray in Delhi much of the artistic community of Delhi migrated to Lucknow where the ruling aristocracy became their patrons There was also a sizeable community of Europeans who became involved in the cultural life of the city including a French-Swiss colonel Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier The combination of the Delhi artists musicians architects poets as well as painters trained in the classical Mughal traditions the Awadhi aristocracy itinerant European artists and European patrons stimulated the evolution of a new culture In painting as in architecture the focus was on the grand achievements of the Mughals of the preceding century embellished with fashions and ideas from Europe A French soldier Louis Antoine Henri Polier commissioned an album of calligraphies and paintings from a workshop in Delhi The Europeanized style of the floral border shows either that the studio specialized in catering to foreigners or that Polier Polier's album was later presented to Lady Eyre Coote wife of the Commander of the British Army in India Two of the verses are from the great mystical love poet Hafiz Nurallah the author of the poetry in the center panel is unknown The otherwise uncelebrated calligrapher Muhammad 'Ali signed and dated the central panel This page is from an album of calligraphies and paintings commissioned by Colonel Polier which was later presented to Lady Eyre Coote wife of the Commander of the British Army in India Two of the verses are from the great mystical love poet Hafiz Nurallah; the author of the poetry in the center panel is unknown The otherwise uncelebrated calligrapher Muhammad 'Ali signed and dated the central panel The verses have been translated He is the Glorifier My spirit be thy sacrifice O idol called Abtahi Disruptive Turk fervent Persian seditious Arab There is no one in the world who has not wondered at thy beauty -- the sinner Hafiz Nurallah may Allah forgive him He is the Glorifier To thy threshold came The tip of our desire If thou shouldst accept it Bravo to our good fortune -- Muhammad 'Ali 1195 He is Allah If with musky wine my heart is taken it is right For from the hypocritical abstinence no sweet scent comes Do not despair of the blessing of grace for creation is generous It forgives sins and grants absolution to lovers -- the slave of Allah Hafiz Nurallah 2011-09-06 14 30 38 https //www flickr com/photos/thesandiegomuseumofartcollection/6125081096/ Flickr en thesandiegomuseumofartcollection PD-old-100 Files from the San Diego Museum of Art to be checked | ||||
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