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A woman mistakes a cow for the Angel of Death, from a Lights of Canopus (Anwar-i Suhaili) of Kashifi (Iranian, d. 1504)
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Michael Silver and Deborah Lader in memory of Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver
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A woman mistakes a cow for the Angel of Death, from a Lights of Canopus (Anwar-i Suhaili) of Kashifi (Iranian, d. 1504)

c. 1610

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?–1981

(Spink & Sons, London, England, sold to Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver)

1981–?

Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver [1928–1989] and Mrs. Adele Z. Silver, Cleveland, OH, given to their son,...

?–2019

Michael Silver and Deborah Lader, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

2019–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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(Spink & Sons, London, England, sold to Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver) Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver [1928–1989] and Mrs. Adele Z. Silver, Cleveland, OH, given to their son, Michael Silver Michael Silver and Deborah Lader, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Animal Fables of Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 12-August 29, 2021).

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In this gently colored, amply shaded painting, an ailing girl lies listless, eyes barely open, as an attendant fans her. A cow who got her head stuck in a pot has entered the yard in confusion. The girl’s mother, who had been weeping and praying to exchange her own life for the health of her daughter, thought the Angel of Death had come to take her. Pointing to heaven, the woman begs that her daughter be taken instead. Outside the gate, a wandering holy man dozes, indicating this scene takes place in the evening, and a calf annoys her mother as she eats.

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