Lot Essay
For a discussion on Begum Samru and comparable portraits of her, see Linda York Leach, Mughal and other Indian Miniatures in the Chester Beatty Library, volume II, London, 1995, pp.788 – 798.
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PROBABLY DELHI, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820-1830
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PORTRAIT OF ZIB AL-NISA, BEGUM SAMRU (1751-1836)
PROBABLY DELHI, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820-1830
Oil on canvas, she seats on a chair covered with red velvet, under a heavy red curtain, she wears a white Kashmir shawl and a white dress over blue trousers, rows of pearls around the neck and a turra, she smokes a huqqa, a window opening on a forested landscape to the right
30 ¼ x 23 7/8in. (77 x 60.5cm.)
PROBABLY DELHI, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820-1830
Oil on canvas, she seats on a chair covered with red velvet, under a heavy red curtain, she wears a white Kashmir shawl and a white dress over blue trousers, rows of pearls around the neck and a turra, she smokes a huqqa, a window opening on a forested landscape to the right
30 ¼ x 23 7/8in. (77 x 60.5cm.)