Farrukh Chela
Farrukh Chela (active from 1580 or 1585-1604) was an Indian miniature painter during the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States. • Illustration — Farrukh Chela: A Buffalo Fighting a Lioness, 146 x 84 mm. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, United States. • Illustration — Farrukh Chela: The Greedy Dog, between 1575 and 1600.
Farrukh Chela
Farrukh Chela, Inidan painter active from around 1580 to around 1604 · https: s=21 se=1942764267 v=0 f=%5Cd3590%5Cu19835900%5C1951.299_v01_o4.jpg https: ww · Public domain
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- Farrukh Chela
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- Painting, miniatures
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- painter
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Farrukh Chela (active from 1580 or 1585-1604) was an Indian miniature painter during the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States. • Illustration — Farrukh Chela: A Buffalo Fighting a Lioness, 146 x 84 mm. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, United States. • Illustration — Farrukh Chela: The Greedy Dog, between 1575 and 1600.
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Art Institute of Chicago, United States. • Illustration — Farrukh Chela: The Punishment of Khwaja Mu'azzam, 231 x 125 mm, 1604. A page of the Chester Beatty illuminated Akbarnama manuscript. Chester Beatty (Library), Dublin.
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Key facts
• Name — Farrukh Chela • Known for — Painting, miniatures • Notable Works — * A Buffalo Fighting a Lioness (Leaf from the Muraqqa Gulshan) • Shirin Receives a Ring from Khusraw, 1597 – 1598 • The Punishment of Khwaja Mu'azzam, 1604 • Illustration — Farrukh Chela: Elephant and trainer, Gulshan Album (Rose Garden album) by Farrukh Beg. Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States
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Chela's works are part of collections in the United States of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum, Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and in Ireland of Chester Beatty (Library) in Dublin.
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