Chand Bibi, with two court ladies

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one, painted around 1800, shows Chand Bibi, who died in 1599. She was the wife of Ali Adil Shah I of Bijapur. Chand Bibi is always depicted hawking and riding on a white horse.

Kind

artefact

Date

1795–1804 CE