Paintings from India

The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Indian paintings, comprised of worksdating from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, represents theproduction of Muslim ateliers such as those within the imperial Mughal courts,the Deccani sultanates and the provincial cities of Oudh. In addition to pagesfrom many well-known Mughal illustrated manuscripts, the Collection includesmore unusual images, such as one from an almost unknown Akbarnamah. Several ofthe early Mughal miniatures...
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The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Indian paintings, comprised of worksdating from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, represents theproduction of Muslim ateliers such as those within the imperial Mughal courts,the Deccani sultanates and the provincial cities of Oudh. In addition to pagesfrom many well-known Mughal illustrated manuscripts, the Collection includesmore unusual images, such as one from an almost unknown Akbarnamah. Several ofthe early Mughal miniatures have European subjects, and eighteenth- andnineteenth-century works show the stronger connections with Europe thatsubsequently developed. Among the outstanding paintings in the Collection are anineteenth-century processional scene four metres in lenth and a rare earlyDeccani manuscript used for taking auguries.