User:Footpathandstile/Indian connection Safavid

An Indian connection in Late Safavid art? See also: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16057/casket-casket-rahim-deccani/ https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/collection/artifact/woman-in-a-landscape-akm150

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/arts-of-the-islamic/majnun-or-a-wandering-dervish-attributed-to Comparisons:

Govardhan, Late Shah Jahan Album ca 1650

Kashmir connection? https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6099282

https://www.christies.com/lot/a-pair-of-lovers-and-a-calligraphic-6099295/?intobjectid=6099295&lid=1

For an article: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/india-xxi-indian-influences-on-persian-painting

Signed Sadiqi, a major High Safavid painter who may have spent some time in India:

For a history of Europeanizing developments in late 16th-early 17th century India (that made their way to Persia): https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/06/portraits-of-dara-shikoh-in-the-treasures-gallery.html#:~:text=Or.,whom%20he%20married%20in%201633. https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2014/03/mughal-flower-studies-and-their-european-inspiration.html

Influence of Collaert's Florilegium, naturalistic flower studies sometimes copied directly from printed European florilegia. A signed piece by Mansur in the Golshan Album mentioned in the 2nd BL article.

Examples of Europeanizing (or European) art in India, some of which made their way to Iran in the 18th century or earlier: https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/F1956.12/

For Mughal originals:

Shaykh Abbasi et al?

Aga Khan Museum
Portland Art Museum
Christie's
Davis Album
Walters
Walters
Walters
Walters
Chester Beatty
Walters
David Collection. Description notes how some painters of the 1600s departed from Reza Abbasi’s style (then dominant) by turning to European and Indian influenced naturalism. In this painting we can see both European & Mughal figures. Notice treatment of trees
Ali Naqi, 1700/01

Others

Bahram Sofrakesh?
Says Muhammad Zaman. Notice the Mughalizing background

Possible Aliquli Jabbadar attribution by others? See also: https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/viewcomponent/L/HVD_VIA8001562968?vid=HVD_IMAGES&imageId=urn-3:FHCL:34191904&adaptor= https://www.bonhams.com/auction/18950/lot/41/an-astrologer-with-holy-men-at-a-hermitage-attributed-to-ali-quli-jabbadar-fl-late-17th-early-18th-century-after-the-mughal-artist-govardhan-isfahan-late-17th-century/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/aliarda/25996625895/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/aliarda/25996641495/in/photostream/ https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/islamic-art/khalili-collection-islamic-art-album-page-with-an-indian-fakir-mss-1004/

From British Museum descripition: "While the shading on the figures' faces lends them an individuality lacking in earlier more idealized portraits, they nevertheless adhere to a type developed by Shaykh Abbasi."