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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.47
People
Attributed to Payag, Indian (active mid-17th century)
Title
Dara Shikoh with Sages
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Prince Dara Shikoh Conversing with Sages
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
c. 1635
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Uttar Pradesh, Agra?
Period
Mughal period
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299918

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
actual: 36.7 x 25.1 cm (14 7/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Eric Schroeder in honor of John Coolidge
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.47
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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 166-167/Figure 63
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), page 90/figure 97
  • "Darshan: In the Company of the Saints", Speak The Truth, ed. David Mc Mullen, Darshan 86 (South Fallsburg, NY, May 1994), page 6
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), page 146-147
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Studies In Islamic and Later Indian Art From the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), page 32/figure 7

Exhibition History

  • Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984
  • Divinely Inspired: Images of Mystics and Mendicants, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/16/1999 - 03/29/1999
  • Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 3) Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/06/2009 - 01/03/2010
  • 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/02/2016 - 04/26/2017

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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