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Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan
1788 painting by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan is a 1788 oil-on-canvas portrait painting by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. It was sold by Sotheby's for US$7,185,900 in 2019.
It featured in the 2004 exhibition Encounters: the Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800 at the Victoria and Albert Museum where it first received international attention as an unusually monumental portrait of a man from Mysore. Muhammad Dervish Khan was one of three ambassadors to the French court sent by Tipu Sultan. The portrait was never sold, though Vigée Le Brun fled Paris and left it behind when the city was mobbed.