Nawab Muzaffar 'Ali Khan on Horseback, Attributed to Rai Kalyan Das, ca. 1730


Nawab Muzaffar 'Ali Khan on Horseback, ca. 1730, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper, 7 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (20 x cm), Codices, Attributed to Rai Kalyan Das (Chitarman II) (active 1715–60), Muzaffar 'Ali Khan was governor of Ajmer under the emperor Muhammad Shah (r. 1719–48), and was killed in 1739 at the Battle of Karnal. His portrait can be attributed to Rai Kalyan Das, the artist known as Chitarman II, after the legendary artist who had worked for Shah Jahan a century earlier


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