MET Acquires Mughal Portrait

March 27 2024

Video: Sotheby's

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's curator Adam Eaker has announced the museum's acquisition of Francesco Renaldi's Portrait of a Mughal Lady. The picture was acquired from the December Sotheby's London Evening sale for £825,500. Eaker has promised 'to go further down the research rabbit hole to tell her story', so we'll await more news as and when it arrives.

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