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PORTRAIT of LADY ‘ALĪ SHĀH

My colorization of a portrait of
Lady ‘Alī Shāh.

Above is my recolorizing of one of the only few available images of Lady ‘Alī Shāh, the wife of the Nizari Ismai‘ili Imam Āghā Khān II, the others being a portrait of her with her young son and a photo of her leaving the home in old age. The picture of her most satisfying to me is the portrait of her from barakah.com. I ended up finding a vibrantly colorized photo of her from an English-Gujurati photo album at ismaili.net, but it was very fuzzy and dithered. I decided that although the picture from barakah.com seems to be cropped and a reproduction, it was a good candidate to be recolorized in lieu of an existent colored photo.

Colored portrait of Lady ‘Alī Shāh at ismaili.net on which mine is based.
Portrait of Lady ‘Alī Shāh from barakah.com.
Alternatively colored portrait of Lady ‘Alī Shāh at ismaili.net.