1958.233: Virgin and Child with Angels (painting by a Portuguese artist), the central image of a folio from an album of Emperor Jahangir; mounted with an ornamental border by a Mughal artist
Albums
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1958.233
- Title
- Virgin and Child with Angels (painting by a Portuguese artist), the central image of a folio from an album of Emperor Jahangir; mounted with an ornamental border by a Mughal artist
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- c. 1595-1600
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India
- Period
- Mughal period
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201468
Location
- Location
-
Level 2, Room 2400, European Art, 17th century, Rome and Its Influence in the Seventeenth Century
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- image with border: 42 x 26.5 cm (16 9/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
- Accession Year
- 1958
- Object Number
- 1958.233
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Milo Cleveland Beach and Stuart Cary Welch, The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1978), Page 51, 53, 56/Figure 9
- "Women and Religion", The Colby Library Quarterly, Colby Library Associates (Waterville, Maine, 1989), vol. XXV, no. 3, back cover
- Ellison Banks Findly, Religious Resources for Secular Power: The Case of Nur Jahan, Colby Library Quarterly, ed. Douglas Archibald, Vol. XXV, No. 3, September 1989, p. 146; back cover: ill.
- Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Jesuits and the Grand Mogul: Renaissance Art at the Imperial Court of India, 1580-1630, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1998), page 28/figure 19
- 40 Years On... Donations by John Goelet: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, Miniatures and Calligraphy, Tankas and Mandala, M. T. Train and Scala Books (New York, NY, 2000), page 198, 244
- Alan Chong, ed., Christianity in Asia: Sacred Art and Visual Splendour, Asian Civilisations Museum (Singapore, 2016), p. 77, fig. 7
- Axel Langer, ed., In the Name of the Image: Figurative Representation in Islamic and Christian Cultures, Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2022), cat. no. 120
Exhibition History
- The Enlightened Eye: Gifts from John Goelet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/12/2000 - 05/07/2000
- 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
- Luxury for Export: A 17th-Century Indian Textile made for Portugal, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 02/08/2008 - 05/04/2008
- 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/31/2025 - 07/17/2025
- A Colloquium in the Visual Arts , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022
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