id:			136477
accession number:	1960.53
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.53
updated:		2025-05-30 11:09:15.201000

Nanda and the elders, page from a Bhagavata Purana, c. 1525–40. Northern India. Gum tempera and ink on paper; overall: 16.3 x 21.5 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1960.53

title:				Nanda and the elders, page from a Bhagavata Purana
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series:				
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creation date:			c. 1525–40
creation date earliest:		1520
creation date latest:		1545
current location:		242B Indian Painting
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Northern India
technique:	Gum tempera and ink on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 16.3 x 21.5 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	[[recto, upper left corner]] Sa. Mitharama
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	inscription:	[[recto, upper right corner, badly faded]] Hlrabai
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	inscription:	[[verso, upper left corner]] 48
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty
	opening date:   1960-11-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

	title:		Rajput Painting
	opening date:   1960-11-30T05:00:00
	<i>Rajput Painting</i>. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 22, 1961).

	title:		Indian Painting of the 1500s: Continuities and Transformations
	opening date:   2025-03-15T04:00:00
	<i>Indian Painting of the 1500s: Continuities and Transformations</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 15, 2025-January 11, 2026).

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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': '2003-02-04T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-August 18, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-02-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1960
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1960–
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CITATIONS

	Archer, W. G. "Rajput Painting: Passionate Image of India." <em>Art News</em> 59, no. 8 (December 1960): 28.
	page number: 	
	url:		

	Lee, Sherman E. and George Montgomery. <em>Rajput Painting; with an introductory essay and catalogue notes</em>. New York: Asia House, 1960.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 15; plate 3(a).
	url:		

	Sherman E. Lee. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art. </em>5th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and New York: Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry Abrams, Inc., 1964.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 213, colorplate 22.
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 236
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n260

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 236
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n260

	Milo Cleveland Beach, "The Context of Raiput Painting." <em>Ars Orientalis </em>10 (1975): 13.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  fig. 5
	url:		

	Regina Hickmann, Heinz Mode, and Siegfried Mahn.<em> Miniaturen,Volks- und Gegenwartskunst Indiens. </em>Leipzig: Ved E. A. Seemann Verlag, 1976.
	page number: 	Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 32–40, pl. 17.
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 303
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n323

	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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8i
	url:		

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