A Tatar soldier
date: label: Date
content: 16th century
notes: label: Court
content: Ahmadnagar Court
label: School/Tradition
content: Deccani school
label: Label
content: While much of northern India was under the rule of the Mughal emperors, the Deccan plateau of the south was controlled by a series of Muslim sultanates, including Ahmadnagar, which was ruled by the Nizam Shahi sultans. As in the rest of the Deccan, foreigners, or afaqis, were a major presence at the court; in fact, their strong cultural links with the Middle East, especially Iran, has often led to confusion between Deccani and Iranian painting styles. Turkoman princes themselves, possibly accompanied by their painters and artisans, emigrated from Tabriz in Iran to the Deccan in the late fifteenth century. While the subject of this drawing is a Turkoman warrior, the emphasis on the volume of the body as well as the speckling on the shield and the style of the plumed cap are typical conventions of the Deccan art of Ahmadnagar.
label: Provenance
content: To 1929
label: Provenance
content: Kirkor Minassian, New York to 1929 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1929
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Kirkor Minassian, New York in 1929 [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)
label: Exhibition History
content: South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
label: Exhibition History
content: From the Hand of Mani (January 18, 1985 to July 5, 1985)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran (October 14, 1978 to May 30, 1979)
label: Exhibition History
content: Near Eastern Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to February 10, 1972)
label: Exhibition History
content: Near Eastern Art (June 5, 1964 to August 18, 1967)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition Afghanistan (September 3, 1963 to June 5, 1964)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Islamic Manuscripts (May 1, 1945 to September 25, 1947)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Persian Manuscripts (May 5, 1933 to September 22, 1947)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Shahnama and Chinese Art (March 24, 1930 to May 5, 1933)
label: Exhibition History
content: Near Eastern Pottery and Persian Painting (May 2, 1923 to March 14, 1931)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Kirkor Minassian (1874-1944)
place: label: Origin
content: Ahmadnagar, Maharashtra state, Deccan plateau, India
topic: label: Topic
content: warrior
label: Topic
content: sword
label: Topic
content: bow
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: shield
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1929.79
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink and slight tint on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 23.8 x 13.3 cm (9 3/8 x 5 1/4 in)