Equestrian Portrait of Jahangir

Album folio; Equestrian Portrait of Jahangir; recto: single-page portrait, inscription consists of the name of Shah Jahangir in the margin; verso: two couplets from the Diwan of Hafiz; Persian in black nasta'liq script; corners embellished with triangular illuminated panels. Border: The recto is set in gold and black rulings followed by a dark blue, gold-sprinkled frame, mounted on cream-colored paperboard. The verso is set in gold and black rulings in a dark blue, gold-sprinkled border, mounted on cream-colored paperboard. Stamps: blue-edged, 1367; inscription (S1986.414a): Shâh Jahângîr; inscription (S1986.414b); text: 2 lines (4 hemistiches) by Hafiz (injavi end., p. 78): Yâr mafurosh ba dunyâ ki basî sûd nakard/ ânki Yûsef ba zar-i nâsara bifrûkhta bûd/ Guft u khush guft biraw khirqa bisozân Hâfiz/ yâ rab în qalbshinâsi zi ki âmûkhta bûd? [Do not sell your friend out for the world/ for he who sold Joseph for filthy lucre did not gain much profit./ Thus he spoke, and how well he spoke when he said,/ "Go burn your devilish cloak, Hafiz."/ O Lord, from whom did he learn to read minds like this?] From at least 1932 Indjoudjian Collection, Paris, from at least 1932 [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 Indjoudjian Collection by at least December 19, 1932. 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. 410. [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), p. 332, no. 400. [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 Indjoudjian Freres Henri Vever (1854-1942) Francois Mautin (1907-2003)