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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.79
People
Unknown Artist
Title
Pavilion on Lake Pichhola (Jagmandir Island)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
mid 18th century
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Udaipur
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310688

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
43.8 × 48.6 cm (17 1/4 × 19 1/8 in.)
framed: 63.8 × 68.9 × 2.2 cm (25 1/8 × 27 1/8 × 7/8 in.)
mat: 61 × 66 cm (24 × 26 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1969), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift in gratitude to John Coolidge, Gift of Leslie Cheek, Jr., Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg, Louise Haskell Daly, Alpheus Hyatt, Richard Norton Memorial Funds and through the generosity of Albert H. Gordon and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.79
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George Donham Bearce and Stuart Cary Welch, Painting in British India 1757 - 1857 (Brunswick, Maine, 1963)
  • 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 79/figure 34
  • Stuart Cary Welch, India, Art and Culture, 1300-1900, exh. cat., Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1985), Page 377/Figure 254
  • Evelyn Rosenthal, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1994-1995, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), page 8 and front cover
  • Elizabeth Finch, ed., Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, exh. cat., The Drawing Center (New York, NY, 1997), page 27
  • Dipti Khera, The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2020), pp. 176-177, fig. C.2; p. 218
  • Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera, A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, Hirmer Publishers and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, D.C., 2022), cat. 17, pp. 122-123, 392

Exhibition History

  • Earthly Paradise: Gardens in Islamic Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/08/1993 - 08/22/1993
  • The Grace of White: Indian Paintings and Objects, 16th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/23/1994 - 09/29/1994
  • Indian Harvest: Part 2, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/17/1996 - 04/28/1996
  • Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, The Drawing Center, New York, 04/16/1997 - 06/07/1997
  • 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
  • 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/20/2015
  • A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 11/19/2022 - 05/14/2023

Verification Level

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