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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1921.33
People
Attributed to Aqa Riza Jahangiri, Afghan
Title
Gentleman with a Gold Wine Cup
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1600
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India
Period
Mughal period
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216769

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink heightened with opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
13.1 x 6.8 cm (5 3/16 x 2 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Anonymous Funds
Accession Year
1921
Object Number
1921.33
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat., Iranian Institute (New York, NY, 1940)
  • Eric Schroeder, Persian Miniatures in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), page 109-113/figure 19
  • Amina Okada, Imperial Mughal Painters: Indian Miniatures From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1992), page 106/figure 115
  • Krishna Riboud and Amina Okada, Samit & Lampas: Indian motifs, ed. Krishna Riboud, A.E.D.T.A. (Paris, France, 1998), page 165
  • Ladan Akbarnia and Chanchal Dadlani, The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), fig. 5

Exhibition History

  • Precisely to the Point, Daggers and Drawings from Persia and India: 15th-19th century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/30/1992 - 07/26/1992
  • Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part I, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/15/1994 - 12/11/1994
  • Where Traditions Meet: Painting in India from the 15th-17th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/05/2003 - 12/07/2003
  • The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/18/2006 - 07/23/2006

Verification Level

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