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The posture of the keeper who bends one knee, crouching slightly, while looking over his shoulder, is conceivably inspired by the figure of Joseph in Albrecht Durer's engraving The Flight to Egypt. Engravings by, or after, Durer reached the Mughal court in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, brought mainly  by the Jesuits who came from Portuguese Goa, and in several cases were copied directly by the imperial artists. Manohar has signed the page, with his name in a suitably humble position beneath the forelegs of the animal 'Manohar banda' and continues at the top of the painting 'Jahangir shahi'. He is therefore the servant, beholden to the king Jahangir. \r\nLittle is known of Manohar, but contemporary ascriptions to manuscripts attest to his having entered royal service under the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) and he became one of the most important artists of his son and successor, Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Floral borders were added to his painting late in the reign of Jahangir or early in the reign of Shah Jahan, and the page was preserved in a royal album which became dismembered at some unknown date. This folio was bequeathed to the museum by Lady Wantage in 1921.","physicalDescription":"Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, an Indian black buck, facing left, is bulled forwards by its keeper who bends his body and looks backwards over his shoulder towards the animal. He wears a jama of dark orange, shalwar of pale mauve, and slippers with scarlet bands. His turban is white and he has an earring in his right ear. The ground is pale green. Above and below the picture are bands of Persian verses in sloping lines. 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