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Farhad Kills Himself After Hearing the False News of Shirin’s Death

c. 1810

attributed to Amar Das Bhatti

(Indian, active 1800s)

Dana Bhatti

(Indian, active 1800s)
Culture
Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Rajput Kingdom of Jodhpur
Medium
gum tempera and gold on paper
Measurements
Page: 29.8 x 19.6 cm (11 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.); Miniature: 28.6 x 17.8 cm (11 1/4 x 7 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.198
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An Islamic town characterized by domes can be seen in the diminishing background.

Description

A man’s lifeless body is being observed by a group of women. A kneeling woman with a halo and wearing fine garments is Shirin, the beloved of the dead man, Farhad. Farhad cut a canal of milk through a mountain pass as a proof of his love, but on hearing the false news of her demise, he jumped off the mountain and killed himself.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and gold painting depicts figures in a landscape. In the middle ground, Farhad, a man with light skin tone, lies prone near a stream. Shirin, wearing a golden halo, sits among four attendants, all with light skin tones. In the yellow foreground, a saddled blue horse and a deer face right. Jagged brown mountains and a distant town under a pale sky fill the background.

Farhad Kills Himself After Hearing the False News of Shirin’s Death

c. 1810

Amar Das Bhatti, Dana Bhatti

(Indian, active 1800s), (Indian, active 1800s)
Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Rajput Kingdom of Jodhpur

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