‘INAYAT KHAN HOLDING A PORTRAIT OF A EUROPEAN SOLDIER

This painting depicts the Mughal nobleman Inayat Khan, one of Jahangir's favorite courtiers. A very similar portrait appears on a page in the Kevorkian Album in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see Welch et al 1987, no.26, and Crill and Jariwala 2010, no.16, upper right), along with three other portraits of courtiers. The brown background of the present work is seen in a number of portraits of the first decade or so of Jahangir's reign, including two on the aforementioned Kevorkian Album page.