Object Details
- Label
- This colored drawing speaks to an Indian tradition of depicting waterfowl that seems to have begun with the illustrated Baburnamas of the late sixteenth century and that precedes the colonial-period Company paintings of flora and fauna on unpainted grounds.
- Provenance
- To 1969
- Jagdish Mittal, Hyderabad, India. [1]
- From 1969 to 2001
- Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), Beverly Hills, California, purchased from Jagdish Mittal, Hyderabad, India in November 1969. [2]
- From 2001 to 2018
- Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001. [3]
- From 2018
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim. [4]
- Notes:
- [1] Information obtained from Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file, Collections Management Office.
- [4] See note 3.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Jagdish Mittal (1925-2025)
- Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
- Catherine Glynn Benkaim
- Credit Line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
- ca. 1730
- Accession Number
- S2018.1.12
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (sheet): 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 in)
- H x W (image): 28.6 × 21.6 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/2 in)
- Origin
- Chamba, Himachal Pradesh state, India
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- duck
- India
- South Asian and Himalayan Art
- Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Record ID
- fsg_S2018.1.12
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye37c7064c1-5dc9-4d49-829d-ca95be8ad954
