# "A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

**Amir Khusrau Dihlavi** (Indian, died 1350)  
1597–98  
Main support: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper Margins: Gold on dyed paper  
H. 9 3/4 in. .(24.8 cm) W. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)H. 9 3/4 in. .(24.8 cm) W. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 13.228.26. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446560).

## About this work

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi painted this in 1597–98. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Opaque watercolour.** Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- **Watercolour.** Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
- **Ink on paper.** Ink made from soot and animal glue, ground with water on an inkstone. A single brush can give a hair-fine line or a broad wash, and nothing can be corrected.

### [Amir Khusrau Dihlavi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/amir-khusrau-dihlavi)

Indian, died 1350; born in Patiyali; died in Delhi

Amir Khusrau was a poet, scholar and musician who served a succession of sultans at the Delhi court and was a devoted follower of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, beside whose shrine he is buried. Writing chiefly in Persian, he composed a Khamsa, five verse romances answering those of Nizami, which became a classic of Persian literature. Later courts commissioned richly illustrated copies of his poems, among them the Mughal court of Akbar.

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## Facts

- Type: Codices
- Real size: about 10 × 6½ in (25 × 16 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 16th century
- Subjects: Animals, Swords, Men, Women, Horses, Death
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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