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Keywords: Painting1740.jpg en Raidas and Ravidas Matsyendranath and Gorakhnath a Mughal miniature c 1740-50 Source http //www christies com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail asp sid intObjectID 4279690 SE CMWCAT03+1102993+58333782+ QR M+1+54+Aqc0000900+1050820++Aqc0000900+ entry india SU 1 RQ True AN 55 downloaded Apr 1004 A GROUP OF HINDU SAINTS INSCRIBED MIR-I MIRAN WORK OF THE MIR OF MIRS MUGHAL INDIA CIRCA 1740-50 Gouache heightened with gold on paper inscribed in black nasta'liq illuminated margins with bold flowering tendrils verso with six lines of fine black nasta'liq margins trimmed -- Miniature 27 2 x 19 5cm Calligraphy 17 5 x 9 5cm Lot Notes This picture is probably by Mir Kalan Khan as it is rare for a Mughal artist to have the title Mir In view of the fact this painting is in the style of Mir Kalan Khan it is probable that he adopted this unusual way of signing his work The composition of this picture is derived from the lower part of a well known 17th c picture in the Victoria and Albert Museum depicting followers of Khwaja Mu'inuddin Chishti performing sama' at Ajmer Most of the figures are directly copied from the row of saints at the bottom of the V A picture; at the left in the front row are Raidas and Ravidas the two Kanphata yogis on the right are Matsyendranath and Gorakhnath The V A picture is illustrated and discussed by Elinor W Gadon in Dara Shikuh's Mystical Vision of Hindu-Muslim Synthesis Facets of Indian Art V A 1986 pp 153-7 1740-45 http //www columbia edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1400_1499/bhakti/painting1740/painting1740 html a Mughal miniature PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Dara Shikoh 18th-century Mughal miniatures 1740s paintings from India Mughal art in the Victoria and Albert Museum Saints of India Gorakhnath
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