Iltifat Khan

Unknown

ca. 1640 · Brush drawing with pigment on paper · Islamic Art

Well-connected into the Mughal elite through his own marriage and that of his daughters, Iltifat Khan, the subject of this sensitive portrait, is identified in a Devanagari inscription above. The slightly upward focus of his eye suggests that this drawing could have been a study for a durbar portrait in which the subject would have been shown at court gazing at the emperor along with other nobles.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1640

Medium

Brush drawing with pigment on paper

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; The Mossavar-Rahmani Fund for Iranian Art and funds from various donors, 2022