Freer Displays Entire Mughal Painting Collection
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PrintThe Freer Gallery of Art puts its entire collection of Mughal paintings on display. The exhibition "The Imperial Image: Painting for the Mughal Court" is curated by Milo C. Beach, a Smithsonian Regents' fellow. The 74 paintings on display date from the 16th to 19th centuries and include book illustrations made by Mughal court painters. The most important work is a manuscript of the Ramayana purchased by Charles Lang Freer in 1907.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
"Freer: Displaying Painted Pleasures from Islamic India." The Smithsonian Torch (September 1981): 2.
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