Indian Mughal Style Double Sided Manuscript Painting

Mughal print after a 16th century Indian hand painting in wood gilt frame. Indian Mughal School, illuminated India Rajasthan Indian Mughal School, illumi...

This 19th-century Indian miniature painting is composed in the Mughal style and depicts a meeting of the Hindu god Krishna and his shakti Radha, also known as the Supreme Goddess. To...

Indian Mughal Miniature watercolor painting in white inlay frame Indo-Persian hand painted watercolor miniature watercolor painting in very fine art w...

This exquisite Indian miniature painting is a 19th-century reproduction of the Chamba School painting "Portrait of Rāj Singh of Chamba," dated circa 1785. Beautifully honoring the or...

An antique Indian painting from the 19th century depicting Guanyin the Bodhisattva of Compassion sitting on a dragon. Created in India during the 19th century, this large painting features Guanyin the Bodhisattva of Compassion, sitting on the head of a dragon, fluffy clouds adorning the painting's lower section. Her right foot on a lotus flower, Guanyin wears an ornate headdress and elegant clothes. The painting itself measures 30.5"W x 53.5" H and has been set inside a custom frame. Its peaceful subject will make this 19th century Indian painting...

Beautiful soft painting of mineral pigments and ink on paper with a silk brocade border.

An antique Indian Mughal Empire miniature painting executed in gouache and embellished with gold on paper, portrays a captivating court scene wherein a ruler engages with nobles. The...

A framed Indian ceremonial Hindu deity from the mid 20th century, hand-painted on canvas. Created in India during the midcentury period, this scene, hand-p...

An antique Indian Mughal Empire miniature painting, executed in pigments and embellished with gold paint on paper, portrays a raja in the company of nobles. These Mughal miniatures are celebrated for their meticulous detail, vibrant colors, and the use of gold accents to enhance the opulence of the scene. In this artwork, the raja is surrounded by nobles, creating a visual representation of the royal court and highlighting the regal splendor of the Mughal Empire. Dates to the early 19th century. Matted and framed. Antique Indian Paintings...

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...