id: 146183
accession number: 1971.76
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Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602), c. 1602–3. Attributed to Dharam Das (Indian, active c. 1580–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; image: 22.9 x 12.1 cm (9 x 4 3/4 in.); sheet with border: 34.7 x 22.5 cm (13 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1971.76
title: Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602)
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creation date: c. 1602–3
creation date earliest: 1600
creation date latest: 1607
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creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
technique: gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Dharam Das (Indian, active c. 1580–1605) - artist
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measurements: Image: 22.9 x 12.1 cm (9 x 4 3/4 in.); Sheet with border: 34.7 x 22.5 cm (13 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music
opening date: 1996-09-24T04:00:00
Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-December 8, 1996).
title: Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art
opening date: 1997-06-12T00:00:00
Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art
. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organizer) (June 12-August 24, 1997).
title: Art and Stories from Mughal India
opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00
Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).
title: Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art
opening date: 2022-11-11T05:00:00
Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (November 11, 2022-February 5, 2023) https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/beyond-bollywood-2000-years-of-dance-in-art/; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (March 31-July 10, 2023) https://exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/beyond-bollywood-2000-years-of-dance-in-art/.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 13, 2003-February 18, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-08-13T04:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
(John D. MacDonald, Manchester, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: by 1959–1976
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1976–
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RELATED WORKS
id: 118630
Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar), 1605–07. Attributed to Sur Das Gujarati (Indian, active 16th century). Gum tempera and ink on paper; Nim qalam drawing; image: 23 x 12.4 cm (9 1/16 x 4 7/8 in.); overall: 43.2 x 28.2 cm (17 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1939.65
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CITATIONS
Welch, Stuart C. “Early Mughal Miniature Paintings from Two Private Collections Shown at the Fogg Art Museum.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 3, 1959, pp. 133–146.
page number: Reproduced: plate 8, fig. 19
url: www.jstor.org/stable/4629103
Welch, Stuart C. “Early Mughal Miniature Paintings from Two Private Collections Shown at the Fogg Art Museum.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 3, 1959, pp. 133–146.
page number: Reproduced: plate 8, fig. 12
url: www.jstor.org/stable/4629103
Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 18i
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Czuma, Stanislaw J., "Eternal Rhythms", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 08, October 1996
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-08/page/8
Masselos, Jim, Jackie Menzies, Pratapaditya Pal, and Reis Wenger Flora. Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no.146 p. 238-241
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McGill, Forrest. Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region. San Francisco, CA: Asian Art Museum, 2022.
page number: Mentioned andReproduced: pp. 210–211, no. 88
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