Object Details
- Artist
- Attributed to Wajid (active late 17th century)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Ralph (1914-2001) and Catherine Benkaim
- Catherine Glynn Benkaim
- Nowlakah
- Provenance
- To 1967
- Nowlakah, Calcutta [1]
- From 1967 to 2001
- Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), purchased from Nowlakah, Calcutta in December 1967 [2]
- From 2001 to 2018
- Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001
- From 2018
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim
- [1] Ralph Benkaim purchased the painting from Nowlakah, Calcutta in December 1967, several years before Indian paintings were classified as antiquities by the Indian government, according to his personal records, as relayed by Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
- [2] See note 1.
- Credit Line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries
- ca. 1680-1700
- Accession Number
- S2018.1.40
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (painting): 15.9 × 24.4 cm (6 1/4 × 9 5/8 in)
- H x W (overall): 18.7 × 26.7 cm (7 3/8 × 10 1/2 in)
- Origin
- Sawar, Rajasthan 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
- India
- South Asian and Himalayan Art
- Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Saraswati
- Record ID
- fsg_S2018.1.40
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye30fd774ef-8ec4-4f95-979c-d3929ec3810a
