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Abanindranath Tagore
Accession No . 967
Artist Name. Abanindranath Tagore
Title. Nur Jehan
Medium. Wash and tempera on paper
Size. 9" x 9.25"
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Nurjehan (1577-1645) was the wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir and was said to have great influence over the Emperor. Abanindranath painted a series of female figures between 1920 and 1925. These included a portrait of Nurjehan. Art historian R. Siva Kumar has written that Abanindranath visualized the historical portraits after reading historical and literary texts of the period
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