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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.296
People
Painting by Daulat, Indian
Calligraphy by Unknown Artist
Title
Two Sufis: Two Temperaments (painting, recto; calligraphy, verso); folio from a manuscript
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Dervish and Musician
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
c. 1610
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India
Period
Mughal period
Culture
Mughal
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217082

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor, gold, metallic silver paint over red ink and charcoal underdrawing on off-white laid paper.
Dimensions
image: 13.3 x 9.1 cm (5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.296
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stuart Cary Welch and Milo Cleveland Beach, Gods, Thrones, and Peacocks Northern Indian Painting from Two Traditions, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1965), p. 61, fig. 8
  • 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), pp. 114-11, fig. 38
  • Pratapaditya Pal, ed., Master Artists of the Imperial Mughal Court, Marg Publications (Bombay, India, 1991), p. 103, fig. 20
  • Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2004), pp. 101-103, no. 26
  • Milo Cleveland Beach, Eberhard Fischer, and B.N. Goswamy, ed., Masters of Indian Painting, exh. cat., Artibus Asiae Publishers (Zürich, 2011), p. 308, no. 11; p. 316, fig, 10

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
  • 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
  • From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005 - 06/02/2005

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