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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.292
People
Unknown Artist
Previously attributed to Abu’l Hasan, Indian
Title
Wounded Buck with Vignettes of Animals
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1610
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India
Period
Mughal period
Culture
Mughal
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217180

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Mughal Style
Dimensions
15.2 x 16.1 cm (6 x 6 5/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.292
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A large buck stands in profile and faces to the left. Its symmetrical antlers curve inward above its head. The buck has a wound on its left shoulder, the blood runs down to the middle of its front left leg. Five small vignettes that feature different bovidae, mostly sheep and goats, among flowers and against a gold background are pasted onto the painting. At the bottom right is a pair of nilgai, a type of antelope native to the Indian subcontinent. Mughal Style.

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. 15, pl. 9
  • 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), Page 60/Figure 10

Exhibition History

  • A Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Art from the Islamic World and Later South Asia, Colby College Museum of Art, 02/20/2020 - 11/01/2020

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