
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
1617 · Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia
The emperor hands a book to a Sufi and ignores the kings waiting below, one of them James I, copied from an English portrait.
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The emperor hands a book to a Sufi and ignores the kings waiting below, one of them James I, copied from an English portrait.

Rubens painted this descent years after the Antwerp one, and the two together show him reworking the same falling body across a career.