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The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child above, folio from the Salim Album.
This Christian scene is probably drawn from a European print source. The Persian calligraphy above describes the power of the sun, perhaps referring to Jesus's appearance in the clouds overhead: "if there were a hundred stars in view (ahead), the magnitude of one sun would be greater than that".
The Salim Album refers to a group of thirty (known) folios, today dispersed in international collections. These were once part of a small album of paintings and calligraphy, assembled for the Mughal prince Salim (who from 1605 would reign as the emperor Jahangir), probably during the brief years (1600-1604) that he spent in his own court at Allahabad. Eight of these folios are in the Chester Beatty. Although many have been trimmed down, the surviving Salim Album folios share a similar border scheme, of distinctive gold-painted geometric, cloud collar and floral motifs. The art collection mounted in the prince's album deals mainly with single or paired figures, framed by couplets of Persian poetry: these are contemporary court portraits, small compositions adapted from European print media, or studies of spiritual figures.
Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on gold-painted card, painting of the Virgin Mary standing in a landscape, with a boy holding a cross (Jesus) in the clouds above, Persian verses in nasta`liq script, folio from the Salim Album, assembled Allahabad, India, c. 1600-1605.
The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child above, folio from the Salim Album
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Indian collection
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Approved Place 2018/Asia/South Asia/India
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Nasta'liq script
Painting c. 1595-1600, album folio 1600-1605
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