{"data": {"id": 144069, "accession_number": "1968.41", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Portrait of a blind man, c. 1750. Northern India, Pahari kingdoms. Gum tempera on paper; overall: 18 x 13.3 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund, 1968.41", "current_location": "242B Indian Painting", "title": "Portrait of a blind man", "creation_date": "c. 1750", "creation_date_earliest": 1740, "creation_date_latest": 1760, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Northern India, Pahari kingdoms"], "technique": "Gum tempera on paper", "support_materials": [], "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art", "collection": "Indian Art", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Overall: 18 x 13.3 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.18, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.133, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301285, "title": "Year in Review for 1968", "description": "<i>Year in Review for 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).", "opening_date": "1969-01-29T05:00:00"}, {"id": 309658, "title": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual", "description": "<i>Portraiture: The Image of the Individual</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).", "opening_date": "1983-11-22T05:00:00"}, {"id": 308686, "title": "Indian Gallery 242 Rotation \u2013 April-November 2018", "description": "<i>Indian Gallery 242 Rotation \u2013 April-November 2018</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 2-November 18, 2018).", "opening_date": "2018-04-02T04:00:00"}, {"id": 707773, "title": "Art of Pahari India", "description": "<i>Art of Pahari India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 30, 2026-February 21, 2027).", "opening_date": "2026-08-30T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Kasmin Gallery, London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131968", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1968\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The subject of this drawing might be a posthumous portrait of the blind king Sital Dev of Mankot (reigned 1630\u20131660), who died several decades before this drawing was made.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This sensitive portrait survives as a fragment, part of a study for a larger painting. White paint indicates areas the artist reworked. This man\u2019s Mughal tunic, with a <em>katar</em> dagger tucked into the sash, indicates that he is a noble, probably Hindu, because the tunic is tied under the left arm. The gesture of his right hand\u2014just a ghost of an indication\u2014and slightly parted lips suggest that he is making a request.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80044696"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1968.41-portrait-of-an-aging"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Dwivedi, Vinod P. \u201cA Rasamanjari Painting from Basohli.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 56, no. 7, 1969, pp. 262\u2013268.", "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 8", "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25152284"}, {"citation": "Leach, Linda York. <em>Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.", "page_number": "Reproduced: Reproduced: cat. no. 112", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.41", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.41/1968.41_web.jpg", "width": "663", "height": "900", "filesize": "205252", "filename": "1968.41_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.41/1968.41_print.jpg", "width": "2503", "height": "3400", "filesize": "2515652", "filename": "1968.41_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.41/1968.41_full.tif", "width": "4932", "height": "6700", "filesize": "99163348", "filename": "1968.41_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 144069, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1968-03-09T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1740, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1750", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": ["Portrait of a man"], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-09-04 20:15:38.482000"}}