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Artist
Farrukh Beg (1547–1615)  wikidata:Q4481320
 
Farrukh Beg
Alternative names
Farrukh Husayn
Description painter
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Work period –1619 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q4481320
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English: Shah Tahmasp in the mountains.
"100. Shah Tahmasp in the Mountains
Early nineteenth century
Inscribed to Farrukh Beg
FGA 39.47a
THIS ARCHAIZING portrait of Shah Tahmasp (1514-76), the great Safavid patron who reigned in Persia from 1524 until his death, brings to mind historical films in which legendary beings are forced into "period" settings. The baton of his turban has been truncated; the landscape is trumped up from late sixteenth-century Mughal rather than Iranian sources; and the kebabs evoke flavors that are more traditional than the costumes of their cooks. It may have been inspired by a portrait painted for Jahangir by Sahifa Banu, the best-known woman artist of the Mughal court. Her fine but amateur accomplishment was deemed worthy of one of the richest of all seventeenth-century Mughal borders, adorned (by Mansur himself?) with drawings in gold of flora and fauna. This early nineteenth-century pastiche bears no relationship to the work of the eminent artist Farrukh Beg, to whom it was inscribed. SCW
THIS PORTRAIT is surrounded by Persian verses in apparent disorder. The reader is urged to turn to God and is told that "death is better than a life in misery." A.S.
HERE AGAIN is the familiar nineteenth-century border of verses simulating the cutout ones of seventeenth-century albums, with a second border of a flower-head and palmette scroll in gold on blue. The main border is in colors heavily outlined in gold on a buff ground. MLS
1. For Sahifa Banu's portrait, see Clarke, Indian Drawings, no. 27, pl. 18. It is in the Wantage Album (V&A 177-1921)."
Date Early 19th century: (1981) The imperial image: paintings for the Mughal court, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, p. 190, fig.34 "Inscribed to Farrukh Beg, early 19th century"
institution QS:P195,Q1075126
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F1939.47a
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Original publication: 16th-century
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