A Khalasi (Naval officer) from BEYPORE Frame Size (in Inches):26 x 38 and he had the body

and he had the body of a lion

This painting was made when Abu’l Hasan was still living in Mandu (before he was invited by Jehangir to the royal court) and uses gouache heightened with gold leaf on a fine woven cotton canvas

His tomb in Samarkand was opened by a Soviet anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov in 1942

It goes unsaid that unlike his forefathers who brought the artists of the imperial studios into the courts and their households

but even though he was allowed within the royal enclosure

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