Nobleman Smoking on a Terrace
Attributed to Ali Reza Iranian
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This view into a courtly scene depicts an elegant group gathered within a marble pavilion that overlooks distant trees under a misty sky. The nobleman in pink at center is smoking from a long huqqa pipe, the base of which is held by a favored courter, while attendants appear at each side, completing the formal arrangement of the scene. The style of the painting bridges the formal conventions of the Mughal school with the more imaginative and atmospheric effects of the Deccan. This suggests that it belongs to the world of the northern Deccan which saw a mixing of the two sensibilities in diverse patronage with artists such as Ali Reza moving through the region during the Mughal occupation over much of the seventeenth century.
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