Prince Salim at a Hunt (recto), Calligraphy (verso), Folio from a Shikarnama (Hunting Album)

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Prince Salim at a Hunt (recto), Calligraphy (verso), Folio from a Shikarnama (Hunting Album)

India, Mughal Empire, Allahabad, Salim's studio, 1600-1604
Drawings; watercolors
Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (37.47 x 26.67 cm); Image (recto): 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 in. (19.69 x 11.75 cm); Image (verso): 8 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. (21.59 x 11.11 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by The Ahmanson Foundation (M.83.137)
South and Southeast Asian Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

This painting of Prince Salim (the future Emperor Jahangir, r. 1605-1627) has been attributed to the Mughal artist Manohar by Sheila Canby (LACMA Member’s Calendar 21:10, October 1983)....
This painting of Prince Salim (the future Emperor Jahangir, r. 1605-1627) has been attributed to the Mughal artist Manohar by Sheila Canby (LACMA Member’s Calendar 21:10, October 1983). It was originally part of a Shikarnama (Hunting Album) prepared for Salim during his rebellion from his father Emperor Akbar (r. 1605-1627), when he established an independent court at Allahabad in 1600-1604. Folios from this now-dispersed manuscript, which share uniform stylistic and compositional characteristics, are now in Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (50.1), Cleveland Museum of Art (1939.66), Indian Museum, Kolkata (R13029/S.160), San Diego Museum of Art (1990:316), and the Keir Collection. See also M.84.32.7. Recto: Salim sits in a howdah on an elephant with a rifle cradled against his left shoulder. He gestures with his right hand extended towards a large retainer, who seems to be presenting him with a baby rhinoceros whose mother had just been shot. A dead antelope lies nearby. In the background, there are two scenes of cheetahs hunting prey and various servants engaged in the hunt. The peach-colored inner border, added later, is erroneously inscribed with the name of Shah Jahan. Verso: A page of calligraphy featuring a quatrain of Persian poetry composed by Muhammad Nasir al-Munshi: O Beloved O your magnanimity is like a roof from the corner of which nine firmaments hang like candles. On the battlefield your sword overthrows an elephant like a pawn. (Translation by Z. Faridany-Akhavan.)
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Bibliography

  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya. Indian Painting, vol.1. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.
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