Mir Jumla
1619
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1619
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Mir Jumla is a 1619 paint by Shiv Das, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a man with a serious expression, dressed in fancy clothes. He's sitting with his legs crossed, looking straight ahead. The painting is very detailed, with intricate patterns on his clothes. The inscription on the painting tells us who this man is: Mir Jumla, a important person from Iran. He traveled to India and worked for a ruler there before joining the Mughal emperor's court. To learn more about the style of this painting, look into the technique of chiaroscuro.
The painting attributed to Shiv Das depicts Mir Jumla, an Iranian noble who served the Mughal emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan, standing on a brown ground and facing left. A Persian inscription in black ink identifies the subject and artist, with the latter’s name written in gold on the gold ground border surrounding the figure. The outer border features indigo-dyed paper adorned with gold flowering plants, Chinese clouds, and insects, while the lower border contains a Persian inscription on undyed paper identifying the subject and artist. The work was likely created between Mir Jumla’s…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Shiv Das painted Mughal portraits like *Mir Jumla* around 1618–20, blending precise detail with rich colors under the emperor’s court.
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