id:			124164
accession number:	1945.168
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.168
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:00.511000

Portrait of Asaf Khan (1569–1641), from the Late Shah Jahan Album, c. 1653. Mughal India, court of Shah Jahan (1627–58). Gum tempera and gold on paper; image: 19 x 11.9 cm (7 1/2 x 4 11/16 in.); overall: 38 x 24.8 cm (14 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.); with mat: 49 x 36.3 cm (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.168

title:				Portrait of Asaf Khan (1569–1641), from the Late Shah Jahan Album
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creation date:			c. 1653
creation date earliest:		1648
creation date latest:		1658
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Mughal India, court of Shah Jahan (1627–58)
technique:	Gum tempera and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Image: 19 x 11.9 cm (7 1/2 x 4 11/16 in.); Overall: 38 x 24.8 cm (14 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.); with mat: 49 x 36.3 cm (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of the Month: Indian Miniatures
	opening date:   1952-07-15T04:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of the Month: Indian Miniatures</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 28, 1952).

	title:		Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1998-02-21T00:00:00
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

	title:		Martial Art of India (Indian Painting rotation)
	opening date:   2022-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Martial Art of India (Indian Painting rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 21, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 4-August 5, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-02-04T05:00:00Z'}

* {'description': '<em>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 28-November 2, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2015-04-28T04:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Demotte (?)
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	(Mrs. Adrienne Minassian [1913–1994], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1945
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1945–
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		146186
	Page from the Late Shah Jahan Album: Prince and Ascetics, c. 1630. Attributed to Govardhan (Indian, active c.1596–1645). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; image: 20.3 x 14.3 cm (8 x 5 5/8 in.); sheet with border: 37.5 x 25.2 cm (14 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.79
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	id: 		149083
	Page from the Late Shah Jahan Album: Persian Calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, calligraphy: c. 1500–1540; border: c. 1630–40. Mir 'Ali Haravi (Persian, active in Herat, Afghanistan, died c. 1550). Gum tempera, gold, and ink on paper; overall: 36.8 x 25.2 cm (14 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Herbert F. Leisy in memory of his wife, Helen Stamp Leisy 1977.207
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CITATIONS

	Hollis, Howard. “Portrait of a Nobleman.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 33, no. 10, 1946, pp. 180–181, 185.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 180–181, 185
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141322

	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: 	cat. no. 28ii
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	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara</em> [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 24, cat. no. 3
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	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 436, fig. 10.25
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