Portrait of Asalat Khan

Object Details

• Court

  Mughal Court

• School/Tradition

  Mughal school

• Description

  Portrait of a standing man, wearing white and holding a sword and shield, against a green background.

• Inscriptions

  Beside the figure is written: [Sanskrit] Asalat Khan

• Provenance

  To 1929

  Kirkor Minassian, New York to 1929 [1]

  From 1929

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Kirkor Minassian, New York in 1929 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.

  [2] See note 1. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)

  Near Eastern Pottery and Persian Painting (May 2, 1923 to March 14, 1931)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Kirkor Minassian (1874-1944)

• Origin

  India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1650s, 1640s

• Name

  Minassian, Kirkor

• Place

  India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Reign of Shah Jahan (1628 - 1658), Art, Shield, Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858), Portraits

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings