About A Prince Holding a Falcon and Galloping Through a Rocky Landscape, Deccan, Golconda, c. 16801700
Thiis is one of the most magnificent and alluring of all Deccani paintings. With the intense foreground procession and the distant buildings and armies seen across the sweeping landscape, this miniature combines the intense yet dreamlike character of Deccani painting with a regal formality derived from Mughal painting (which had thoroughly influenced the Deccan by this time) to produce a masterpiece of mesmerising presence.