Portrait of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1570-1627) - Lot 198

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Portrait of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1570-1627) - Lot 198
Portrait of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1570-1627) Opaque pigments on paper. Full-length portrait of the sultan wearing a long transparent robe over a white ensemble. He holds a bouquet in his right hand and leans on a cane. He stands out against a green background. Wear, small paint chips, wetness, stains. A handwritten pencil inscription on the reverse reads Ismael Adil Shah. An inscription in Gujarati indicates Ismael Bahadur Shah. India, Deccan, Bijapur, circa 1620-30. 21.5 x 11 cm Provenance: Jean Pozzi (1884-1967) collection, Paris; public sale by Maîtres Rheims et Laurin, Estate of M. Jean Pozzi. Indian and Oriental miniatures, Palais Galliera, Paris, December 5, 1970, lot 39 (full-page ill.) Diplomat Jean Pozzi (1884-1967) left his name to posterity for his immense and exceptional collection of objets d'art, drawings, paintings, bronzes, antiques, manuscripts, etc., a large part of which he bequeathed to numerous French and Swiss museums, and another part of which was dispersed at auction in Paris in 1970. It took twelve auctions at Drouot and the Palais Galliera in Paris by auctioneers Maurice Rheims and Laurin to disperse what Jean Pozzi had not bequeathed (from November 2 to December 5, 1970, and on April 30, 1971). Born in 1884, a student at the Lycée Condorcet, then the Sorbonne and the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris, he began his diplomatic career from 1908 to 1914, then became Minister Plenipotentiary of France, serving in Turkey, Iran (1934) and Egypt (1939). He was also President of the Franco-Iranian Chamber of Commerce. Jean Pozzi is the son of gynecologist Samuel Pozzi, whose famous portrait in red robe at home painted by John Singer Sargent in 1881 (Dr. Pozzi at home) is now in the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Ibrahim Adil Shah II Bijapuri, the 6th Sultan of Bijapur (c. 1579-1627) in western Deccan and southern India, was the Deccan's greatest patron of the arts. A mystic with a passion for painting, music and poetry, he profoundly modified the Bijapuri style, just as his contemporary the Mughal emperor Akbar (c1556-1605) transformed Mughal painting in northern India (see Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting, Sothebys Publications, University of California Press, 1983, pp. 67 ff). For other portraits of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, see Mark Zebrowski, op.cit. in particular fig. 49-50, p. 74-75, fig. 59, p. 83 and fig. 67, p. 91.
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