Guru Gobind Singh

The Guru then proceeded to the Deccan to personally meet Emperor Aurangzeb. This fine miniature of the Guru astride a pinto horse, fully armed with swords, bows and arrows and dressed in Mughal fashion is a copy from a set of 10 miniatures of the Sikh Gurus attributed to the workshop of Nainsukh of Guler in early 19th century . While some of the paintings in this set are in the Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh, the rest of the set is in the Lahore museum. A legacy of the partition of India in 1947 when art collections too were divided between the two nations, making this complete set in the Kapany Collection even more significant.