A Khalasi (Naval officer) from BEYPORE Frame Size (in Inches):26 x 38 This painting was made when

This painting was made when Abu’l Hasan was still living in Mandu (before he was invited by Jehangir to the royal court) and uses gouache heightened with gold leaf on a fine woven cotton canvas

and he had the body of a lion

no good flesh

His tomb in Samarkand was opened by a Soviet anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov in 1942

prized among the Mughals for its talismanic properties of protection during battle

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