12 7 13

I am no specialist on the history of painting. From personal knowledge I may state that a collection of Mughal oil paintings (reproduced in colored print) was published by the erstwhile Soviet Union and made available in India in the late nineteen-fifties. They were apparently influenced by contemporary  continental renaissance painting. The painters were not Indian but, perhaps Iranian as far as I remember. The original paintings were not earlier than the seventeenth century. The themes were secular, as far as I remember. The collection belonged to Pt. Karumnamay Saraswati (1904-1977), a learned religious man of Calcutta with many devotees.

Best

DB