New Delhi, March 24: Indian art seems to be the flavour of the season and standing tall among several exhibits across the globe is a 17th-century life-size portrait of Jahangir which is being billed as the largest painting to come from the Mughal empire.
The six-foot portrait is among 60 works of the “The Indian Portrait 1560-1860” show currently on at the National Portrait Gallery in London curated by Rosemary Crill and Kapil Jariwala.
The curators decided not to borrow the art works from India at the outset.
“The only difficulty was choosing which to display as there are such superb collections available outside India,” says Crill.
According to her, the show is an overview of the genre.
–PTI