TWO PORTRAITS: HUSAIN `ALI BEG, AMBASSADOR FROM PERSIA AT THE COURT OF RUDOLPH II AND A MUGHAL PRINCESS
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Auctioneer | CHRISTIE'S |
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Event location | United Kingdom, London |
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ID 1031045
Lot 74 | TWO PORTRAITS: HUSAIN 'ALI BEG, AMBASSADOR FROM PERSIA AT THE COURT OF RUDOLPH II AND A MUGHAL PRINCESS
Estimate value
£ 1 000 – 1 500
AFTER THE ORIGINAL ENGRAVING BY AEGIDIUS SADELER II (CIRCA 1570-1629), ENGRAVED AFTER A PAINTING BY ESAYE LE GILLON, PRAGUE, 1601; PROBABLY DELHI, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Engraving, without watermark, a fine impression of the second state (of five), trimmed to or just outside the borderline on three sides, fractionally trimmed inside the subject at right, laid down; together with an unidentified oval portrait of a Mughal Princess, stipple engraving on paper, oval format, the verso plain
Husain 'Alibeg 7 ½ x 5 ¼in. (19.2 x 13.5cm.); mount 10 1/8 x 7 1/8in. (25.5 x 18cm.); Mughal princess 4 ¾in. (12cm.) high
Literature
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, c. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1949, p.314.
Isabelle de Ramaix, Illustrated Bartsch: Aegidius Sadeler II, Connecticut, 1997, p. 323.
Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Czech Republic, India, Asia, Europe |
Art style: | Safavid (1506-1722) |
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Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Czech Republic, India, Asia, Europe |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | ||||||
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