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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.299
People
Signed by Hashim, Indian
Title
Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58) in Old Age
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
c. 1650
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India
Period
Mughal period
Culture
Mughal
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216936

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
38 x 26 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed by Hashim
  • inscription: "work of Hashim"
  • (not assigned): top of mount: verso of mount: 80  Original verso is not accessible. The work is irreversibly mounted down.  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Louis Cartier Collection, Paris, (by 1958), sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warren, NH (1958-1999), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.299
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stuart Cary Welch, "Mughal and Deccani Miniature Paintings From a Private Collection", Ars Orientalis; The Arts of Islam and the East, Freer Gallery of Art / Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1963), Vol. 5, 221 - 233, fig. 18, pl. 12
  • 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 127-128, 129/Figure 45
  • Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., pp. 298-299, no. 23

Exhibition History

  • Infancy to Old Age: A Gallery of Indians, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/27/1993 - 04/25/1993
  • Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 09/03/2000
  • The Way I Remember Them: Paintings by Nusra Latif Qureshi, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 02/20/2004 - 04/25/2004
  • The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005
  • Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, Dallas Museum of Art, 05/14/2022 - 09/18/2022

Verification Level

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