Baba Junayd Is Rude to Umar and Turns Him Away from the Caravanserai, from a Hamzanama

Object Details

• Court

  Mughal Court

• School/Tradition

  Mughal School

• Provenance

  To 1981

  Marvin Sadik Fine Arts, Inc., Falmouth, ME, to 1981 [1]

  From 1981

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Marvin Sadik Fine Arts, Inc. in 1981

  Notes:

  [1] The object is said to have been "in a farmhouse in Maine" for over fifty years before it was acquired by the dealer who sold it to the Freer Gallery of Art (see Curatorial Note 4 in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Adventures of Hamza (June 26 to September 29, 2002)

  Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)

  The Imperial Image: Painting for the Mughal Court (September 25, 1981 to 30 March 1982)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Marvin Sadik Fine Arts, Inc.

• Origin

  India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1570s, 1550s

• Name

  Sadik Fine Arts, Inc., Marvin

• Place

  India

• Topic

  Hamzanama, South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Men, Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings