{"version":1,"name":"Jahangir Entertains Shah Abbas by Attributed to Bishandas; Abu'l Hasan proposed in published scholarship (About 1620; borders dated 1746–1747)","paintingName":"Jahangir Entertains Shah Abbas","artist":"Attributed to Bishandas; Abu'l Hasan proposed in published scholarship","date":"About 1620; borders dated 1746–1747","artistUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive?artist=Attributed%20to%20Bishandas%3B%20Abu%27l%20Hasan%20proposed%20in%20published%20scholarship","medium":"Opaque watercolour, gold and ink on paper","dimensions":"25 × 18.3 cm, as catalogued by the Smithsonian","location":"Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC; F1942.16a","period":"Mughal dynasty, reign of Jahangir","culture":"Mughal India; later album decoration in Iran","canonicalUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/jahangir-welcoming-shah-abbas","imageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/images/artworks/jahangir-welcoming-shah-abbas.jpg","publishedUtc":null,"summary":"Two rival rulers sit together in a setting of jewels, vessels, flowers and winged figures. The meeting is imaginary: Jahangir and Shah Abbas never met. A tiny European mechanical sculpture adds another layer to the spectacle. The painting makes hospitality a claim to power, while its later Iranian borders and dispersed album history reveal a journey far beyond the Mughal court.","text":"A Mughal allegory of an imagined reception, subsequently incorporated into the St. Petersburg Album. The Smithsonian identifies the work as F1942.16a and currently attributes it to Bishandas; published scholarship also names Abu'l Hasan.","passages":[],"sources":[{"id":"s1","title":"Jahangir entertains Shah Abbas, from the St. Petersburg Album, F1942.16a","url":"https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm%3Afsg_F1942.16a","publisher":"Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art","sourceType":"museum"},{"id":"s2","title":"Exact Commons image record: Jahangir Welcoming Shah Abbas","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:12_Abu%27l_Hasan_Jahangir_Welcoming_Shah_%27Abbas,_ca._1618,_Freer_Gallery_of_Art,_Washington_DC.jpg","publisher":"Wikimedia Commons","sourceType":"image-record"},{"id":"s3","title":"Jessica Keating, Metamorphosis at the Mughal Court, 2015, published extract","url":"https://academic.oup.com/arthistory/article-abstract/38/4/732/7278263","publisher":"Art History, Oxford Academic","sourceType":"academic"},{"id":"s4","title":"Joachim Friess, Diana and the Stag, about 1620, 17.190.746","url":"https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/193623","publisher":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","sourceType":"museum"},{"id":"s5","title":"Murad Khan Mumtaz, Faces of God, 2023, p. 153","url":"https://brill.com/display/book/9789004549449/9789004549449_webready_content_text.pdf","publisher":"Brill","sourceType":"academic"},{"id":"s6","title":"The St. Petersburg Muraqqa: Album of Indian and Persian Miniatures, catalogue discussion of Jahangir and Shah Abbas","url":"https://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/st.petersburg_muraqqa_1996.pdf","publisher":"Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences","sourceType":"academic"},{"id":"s7","title":"Comparison only: Emperor Jahangir embraces Shah Abbas, F1945.9a","url":"https://www.si.edu/object/emperor-jahangir-embraces-shah-abbas%3Afsg_F1945.9a","publisher":"Smithsonian Institution","sourceType":"museum"},{"id":"s8","title":"St. Petersburg Muraqqa, E-14: Album history and related dispersed leaves","url":"https://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/collections/arabica/arabic_collection_muraqqa.htm","publisher":"Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences","sourceType":"archive"},{"id":"s9","title":"Jahangir and Shahjahan: Policies and their Achievements, North West Frontier Policy","url":"https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/icp01/chapter/jahangir-shahjahan-policies-and-their-achievements/","publisher":"INFLIBNET educational textbook platform","sourceType":"academic"}],"review":null,"attributionRequest":"You are welcome to read, retrieve and cite our public articles to answer questions. 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