Four portraits from the St. Petersburg Album

Mughal Court Mughal School Detached album leaf; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; obverse: calligraphic panel, couplets of poem, signed by Imad al-Hasani; reverse: Four portraits: Awrangzeb (above right), Shah Jahan (above left), unidentified nobleman (below right) and Dara Shikoh (below left). Border: The calligraphy panel is set in gold rulings surrounded by an inner frame of pink floral scroll mounted on black-colored paperboard; the painting is set in a blue and gold floral scroll, surrounded by a red floral scroll on a border of naturalistic floral sprays, birds, and insects, mounted on a cream-colored paperboard. The calligraphy panel, "Poor Imad al-Hasani, may God forgive him." From at least 1911 Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), Paris, from at least 1911 [1] To 1942 Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, to 1942 [2] From 1942 to 1986 Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France [3] From 1986 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France [4] Notes: [1] The object is documented as having appeared in the collection of Kevorkian by at least November 7, 1911. See Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 411. [2] See Glenn D. Lowry et al., An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), pp. 294-295, no. 345. [3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office. [4] See note 3. Arthur M. Sackler Collection Arts of Mughal India (2004) (August 21, 2004 to February 6, 2005) A Mughal Hunt (March 13 to September 11, 1994) Arts of Mughal India (1992) (May 24 to December 6, 1992) A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989) Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962) Henri Vever (1854-1942) Francois Mautin (1907-2003)