Portrait of Sharif Sarmadi from the Salim Album
Portrait of Sharif Sarmadi from the Salim Album
Portrait of Sharif Sarmadi from the Salim Album
Portrait of Sharif Sarmadi from the Salim Album

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Portrait of Sharif Sarmadi from the Salim Album,

ca. 1600

Indian

Mughal period, 1526–1858 | Reign of Akbar, 1556–1605

y1969-39
Prior to ascending the throne as the fourth Mughal emperor, Jahangir (reigned 1605–27) was known as Prince Salim, and this portrait comes from an album named for the young prince. The album was compiled during the period when the prince rebelled against his father and set up his own court in the eastern part of the empire. About thirty paintings from the album survive and are dispersed across collections in North America and Europe. All feature the same decoration in the outer border—geometric medallions painted in gold. The inscription on this painting reads "īn shabīh-i Sharīf sarmad-i ast," which means "this portrait of Sharif is everlasting /eternal."

Information

Title
Portrait of Sharif Sarmadi from the Salim Album
Dates

ca. 1600

Medium

Ink, gold, and color on paper

Dimensions

miniature: 12.1 × 5.9 cm (4 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
sheet: 22.7 × 14.2 cm (8 15/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
mat: 48.9 × 36.2 cm (19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900

Object Number
y1969-39
Place Made

Asia, India

Inscription

Black-on-buff inscription above scene; inscription and scene together bordered with bands of blue and a broad zone of gold geometric patterns on the parchment ground.

Culture
Indian
Period
Mughal, staffs
Type
manuscripts, miniatures (paintings)
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product), gold
Subject
figures (representations), portraits, geometric patterns, men

Donor's number JLD33.

From Ettinghausen, “Islamic Art from Princeton”: Listed as “Portrait of an Official of the Court of the Emperor Jahangir,” about 1620. (See reference Bib. 702)

Card dates as from Reign of Jahangir, 1605-1627.

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