Seated Man with a Flower

Description This Indian drawing with opaque watercolor and illumination, Walters manuscript leaf W.709, depicts a man seated against a cushion holding a flower in his left hand. The work was executed in India during the 12th century AH/AD 18th. There is a Persian inscription reading, "a youth as ambitious as Iskandar (Alexander the Great)."

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters