Farrukh Chela
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KnownforPainting, miniatures
Notable work
- 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
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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.[1][2][3] As a prolific artist, he contributed to most of the major illustrated manuscripts at the Mughal court.[3]
Farrukh Chela: Shirin Receives a Ring from Khusraw, 1597 – 1598. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States.
Farrukh Chela: A Buffalo Fighting a Lioness, 146 x 84 mm. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, United States.
Farrukh Chela: The Greedy Dog, between 1575 and 1600. Art Institute of Chicago, United States.
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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Chela's works are part of collections in the United States of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum,[4] 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.
