"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Miskin|Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
1597–98 · Main support: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper Margins: Gold on dyed paper · Islamic Art
In this dramatic painting, a king submits to justice after having accidentally killed a shepherd while hunting. He offers the boy's grieving mother a choice: to take his sword and cut off his head, which will fall in the golden dish between them, or to accept the second dish filled with gold. Some of the marginal figures are of European inspiration, while the rocks are Persian and the main figures are typically Mughal.
- Artist
- Miskin|Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
- Date
- 1597–98
- Medium
- Main support: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper Margins: Gold on dyed paper
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
