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Nur Jahan Holding a Portrait of Emperor Jahangir
Bishandasc. 1627
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The empress Nur Jahan, Jahangir’s favorite wife, exercised influence in affairs of state. By all accounts, including those of Jahangir himself and European visitors to the Mughal court, she was a remarkable and brilliantly capable woman. This painting may have been made shortly after the death of Jahangir. He appears aged in his portrait, and it echoes a similar composition from another painting in which Jahangir holds a painted portrait of his deceased father, Akbar.
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- Title: Nur Jahan Holding a Portrait of Emperor Jahangir
- Creator: Bishandas (Indian)
- Date Created: c. 1627
- Physical Dimensions: Painting only: 13.6 x 6.4 cm (5 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Page: 30 x 22.1 cm (11 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Maggs Brothers, London, UK, sold to Ralph Benkaim), Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.325
- Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
- Fun Fact: Jahangir died at 58, outliving his younger brothers by about 25 years.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: Northern India, Mughal court, 17th century
- Credit Line: Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Collection: Indian Art - Mughal
- Accession Number: 2013.325
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