Lot 296: A PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF KINGS OF OUDH: GHAZI-UD-DIN HAIDAR (R.1814-27), AND HIS SON AND SUCCESSOR NASIR-UD-DIN HAIDAR (R.1827-37), BY MUHAMMAD AZAM MUSAVVIR, INDIA, LUCKNOW, CIRCA 1830 |

Name: A PAIR OF PORTRAITS OF KINGS OF OUDH: GHAZI-UD-DIN HAIDAR (R.1814-27), AND HIS SON AND SUCCESSOR NASIR-UD-DIN HAIDAR (R.1827-37), BY MUHAMMAD AZAM MUSAVVIR, INDIA, LUCKNOW, CIRCA 1830 |
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 54245b5b69
Price: 24000 GBP

Est: £30,000 GBP - £50,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomOctober 07, 2015

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Description

oil on canvas, each depicted half-length, seated in a large gold chair with pine-cone finials, both wearing the royal crown of Oudh, a hybrid European style designed by English court artist Robert Home (1752-1834). Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar in a yellow silk costume with jewellery, Nasir-ud-Din Haidar with the ermine cape and jewels of his coronation regalia, holding pen and scroll and with an ink-pot beside him; the portrait of Nasir-ud-Din Haidar signed beneath the ink-pot amal-I Muhammed Azam Musavvir (work of the painter Muhammed Azam), gilt frames

Dimensions

93.4 by 73.1cm.<br />92 by 69cm.

Artist or Maker

Robert (1752) Home

Exhibited

India's Fabled City, The Art of Courtly Lucknow
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12 December 2010-27 February 2011
Musée Guimet, Paris, 6 April-11 July 2011

Literature

S. Markel and T.B. Gude, India's Fabled City, The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2010, pp.14-5, p.19, no.36, p.95, no.2.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 19 September 1996, lot 193

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Arts of the Islamic World

Sotheby's

October 07, 2015, 10:30 AM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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