Iltifat Khan

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 693

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.

Iltifat Khan, Brush drawing with pigment on paper

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