Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
This drawing, after an engraving of the Crucifixion by Albrecht Dürer of 1511, is the earliest known work by the famous artist Abu’l Hasan, then aged twelve. It is already more of a creative reinterpretation of its original engraving than a mere copyist’s exercise. Within a few years, Abu’l Hasan’s refined naturalistic technique, together with his psychological insight, would make him the foremost portraitist at Jahangir’s court.
Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 84 on pp. 76-77, p. xiv, illus. p. 77
Topsfield, Andrew, Indian Paintings from Oxford Collections, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum in association with the Bodleian Library, 1994), no. 8 on p. 22, p. 6, illus. p. 23
London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1947-1948, The Art of India and Pakistan: A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition Held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1947-8, Leigh Ashton, ed. (London: Faber and Faber, 1950), no. 665 on p. 148, pl. 128
London: British Museum, 13 April-11 July 1976, Paintings from the Muslim Courts of India, R. H. Pinder-Wilson, Ellen Smart, and Douglas Barrett, eds (London: World of Islam Festival Publishing, 1976), no. 87 on p. 61
Wellesz, E. F., ‘Mughal Paintings at Burlington House’, The Burlington Magazine, 90/539, (1948), p. 46, fig. 25
Skelton, R., ‘Europe and the Courts of India’, Europa und die Kunst des Islam, 15. bis 18. Jahrhundert [= Europe and the Art of Islam, 15th-18th Century], Akten des XXV Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte [= Files of the XXV International Congr (Vienna: H. Böhlaus Nachf., 1985), pp. 35-36
London: British Museum, 5 December 2002-23 March 2003, Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist, Giulia Bartrum and others, eds (London: British Museum, 2002), no. 217 on p. 263
Guy, John, and Britschgi, Jorrit, Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), no. 28 on p.74
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