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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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A Mughal courtier
c. 1575; border added probably 1700s
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Provenance
PublicProvenance event
Hagop Kevorkian [1872–1962], New York, NY
December 6, 1967
(Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevork...
1967–2013
Ralph Benkaim [1914–2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Clev...
2013–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
Hagop Kevorkian [1872–1962], New York, NY (Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, 6 December 1967, lot 114, sold to Ralph Benkaim) Ralph Benkaim [1914–2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Martial Art of India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 21, 2022). A Flower From Every Meadow. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY; Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA; Albright-Know Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York, NY (1973). Akbar's India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory. Asia Society, New York, NY (October 10, 1985-January 5, 1986); Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (January 24-March 16, 1986); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (April 19-June 15, 1986).
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Sourced Overview Evidence
This sensitive portrait is among the earliest surviving individual portraits from the Mughal atelier. He remains unidentified by inscription, since such portraits were made for the emperor Akbar who was unable to read. Realism in portraiture developed under Akbar as a means of keeping records of gifts and promotions without written notations. The figure conspicuously grasps the maroon and gold scarf in his left hand, which suggests that it may have been the gift from the emperor that would have occasioned the portrait. The array of blades he carries indicates that he was conscripted into military service at the Mughal court.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.
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