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Portrait of Shah Jahan
Also titled Portret van Sjah Jahan
c. 1630 - c. 1650
- Medium
- alabaster (mineral)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 11.7 cm x width 8.6 cm x depth 1.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The great Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628–1658) is represented at the window where he customarily appeared to the people. The relief was sculpted by a European who was probably in the service of the emperor.
