Identify this painting and answer the following questions:
What is the title of this painting?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Jahangir’s Dream
This painting is Jahangir’s Dream (1618–22) by Abul Hasan. It shows the dream in which the Persian emperor Shah Abbas visited Emperor Jahangir.
NCERT (2026-27): “Early Mughal Painting …Jahangir’s Dream (1618–22) by Abul Hasan, given the title Nadir al Zaman, meaning the ‘Wonder of the Age’, refers to the Emperor’s dream, in which he was visited by Persian Safavid emperor Shah Abbas, his rival, who possessed the much desired province of Qandahar. Interpreting it as good omen, he had the court artist Abul Hasan paint the dream.…”
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