1995.126: "Crime Passionnel": An Outraged Husband Murders His Unfaithful Wife and Her Lover

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1995.126

Title

"Crime Passionnel": An Outraged Husband Murders His Unfaithful Wife and Her Lover

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1745

Places

Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Bikaner

Culture

Indian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310625

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

22.8 x 31.5 cm (9 x 12 3/8 in.)
framed: 48.58 x 63.82 x 2.22 cm (19 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift in gratitude to John Coolidge, Gift of Leslie Cheek, Jr., Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg, Louise Haskell Daly, Alpheus Hyatt, Richard Norton Memorial Funds and through the generosity of Albert H. Gordon and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.

Accession Year

1995

Object Number

1995.126

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Stuart Cary Welch, India, Art and Culture, 1300-1900, exh. cat., Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1985), Page 375/Figure 252
• Carla Borden, ed., Contemporary Indian Tradition: Voices on Culture, Nature, and the Challenge of Change, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington D.C., 1989), Pg. 115
• Elizabeth Finch, ed., Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, exh. cat., The Drawing Center (New York, NY, 1997), page 26

Exhibition History

• Leaves From the Jungle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/17/1984 - 01/06/1985
• Poignant, Picturesque, and Berserk Northern Indian Paintings and Objects of the Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/08/1992 - 10/04/1992
• The Grace of White: Indian Paintings and Objects, 16th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/23/1994 - 09/29/1994
• Indian Harvest: Part 2, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/17/1996 - 04/28/1996
• Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, The Drawing Center, New York, 04/16/1997 - 06/07/1997
• The Sensuous and the Sublime: Representations of Love in the Arts of the Middle East and Southern Asia, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/07/2001 - 12/30/2001
• ReVisions, Indian Artists Engaging Traditions , Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 04/04/2009 - 01/10/2010

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