id: 149378
accession number: 1978.38
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Shah Jahan, c. 1656–61. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash; sheet: 22.5 x 17.1 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.); secondary support: 27.6 x 22.4 cm (10 7/8 x 8 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.38
title: Shah Jahan
title in original language:
series:
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creation date: c. 1656–61
creation date earliest: 1656
creation date latest: 1661
current location:
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:
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culture: Netherlands
technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Dutch
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 22.5 x 17.1 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 27.6 x 22.4 cm (10 7/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
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support materials:
description: light brown Japanese paper laid down on beige(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:
inscription: On verso of secondary support, upper center, in graphite: Portrait of; upper center, in brown ink: Portrait of Sháh Jahán Emperor of Hindustan [inscription in English] / Shah Jahan Padshah [inscription in Persian]; upper right, in graphite: Ouseley / written by Sir Gore Ou[seley] 1809; lower left, in graphite: 334; fragment of old mount (now removed), in blue pencil: 3[crossed out with black ink]; fragment of old mount (now removed), in gray ink: Portrait of Sháh Jehán / Emperor of Hindûstan; in black ink: 5[written over 5 in graphite] Indian Prince [underlined]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions
opening date: 1978-09-15T04:00:00
Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978).
title: Year in Review: 1978
opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).
title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism
opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00
Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).
title: Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics
opening date: 1982-04-27T04:00:00
Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).
title: The Twain Shall Meet
opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00
The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
title: Romance of the Taj Mahal
opening date: 1989-12-17T05:00:00
Romance of the Taj Mahal. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (December 17-March 11, 1989); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (April 28-June 24, 1990); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (August 23-November 25, 1990).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: Rembrandt Paintings in America
opening date: 2011-10-30T00:00:00
Rembrandt Paintings in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 19-May 28, 2012).
title: Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India
opening date: 2018-03-13T04:00:00
Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (March 13-June 24, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (February 13-June 24, 2018) p. 80.', 'opening_date': '2018-02-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Rembrandt-Ausstellung zu Ehren Ihrer Majestät Königin Wilhelmine der Niederlande, anlässlich des Jubiläums ihrer fünfzigjährigen Regierungszeit. Katz Galerie, Basel (July 24–September 30, 1948), no. 29.', 'opening_date': '1948-09-30T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London, 1665-1745 (Lugt 2184); his mount; his sale, Cock, London, 22 January-11 February 1747, lot 70 "a book of Indian Drawings, 25 in number"
date: ?-1747
footnotes:
citations:
Peregrine Cust, 6th Lord Brownlow, Belton House, Grantham, 1899-1978; his sale, Sotheby's, London 29 June 1926, lot 25, to Duveen
date: ?-1926
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citations:
with Joseph Duveen, London
date: 1926-?
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citations:
Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Detroit, 1880-1958; his sale, Mensing, Amsterdam, 25 October 1932, lot 12
date: ?-1932
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citations:
Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt and Basel, 1883-1977; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1978, lot 38; to Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1978
footnotes:
citations:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1978-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
page number:
url:
Schrader, Stephanie, Catherine Ann Glynn, Yael Rice, William W. Robinson, and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India. 2018. Plate 1
page number: 80
url:
Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold. Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts. New York: E. Weyhe, 1925.
page number: p. 34, no. 643
url:
Benesch, Otto. Rembrandt, Werk und Forschung. Wien: Gilhofer u. Ranschburg, 1934.
page number: p. 56
url:
Benesch, Otto, and Johannes Wilde. Rembrandt: Selected Drawings. London: Phaidon, 1947.
page number: Vol 1, p. 44, no. 229; Vol 2, plate 229
url:
Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. [A Critical and Chronological Catalogue]. London: Phaidon Press, 1954-57.
page number: Vol 5, p. 338, no. 1193, fig. 1417
url:
Clark, Kenneth. Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance. London: Murray, 1966.
page number: pp. 166-67
url:
Benesch, Otto, and Eva Benesch. The Drawings of Rembrandt. London: Phaidon Press, 1973.
page number: Vol 5, p. 321, no. 1193, fig. 1491
url:
Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Six Works from Von Hirsch Collection,” August 1, 1978, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
page number:
url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2569
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–48.
page number: Reproduced: p. 14; Mentioned: p. 45, no. 102
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613
Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 14-15, 39; fig. 6
url:
Lunsingh Scheurleer, P., "Mogol-miniaturen door Rembrandt nagetekend." De Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 32, no. 1 (1980): pp. 10-40.
page number: pp. 30-32, fig. 18
url:
Broos, B. P. J., "Rembrandts Indische Miniaturen." Spiegel Historiael 15 (April 1980): pp. 210-18.
page number: pp. 210-11, fig. 1
url:
Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.
page number: Reproduced: p. 353, fig. 54
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914
Haverkamp Begemann, Egbert, and Carolyn Logan. Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso. New York, NY: The Drawing Center, 1988.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 127-29, no. 34
url:
Pal, Pratapaditya. Romance of the Taj Mahal. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 195-97, fig. 208.
url:
Royalton-Kisch, Martin. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Circle in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press, 1992.
page number: p. 143
url:
Blankert, Albert. Rembrandt: A Genius and His Impact. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997.
page number: under no. 38, fig. 93a
url:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 68, p. 9, pp.168-169, p. 293; Reproduced: p. 169
url:
Filipczak, Zirka Z. “Rembrandt and the Body Language of Mughal Miniatures.” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, vol. 58, 2007, pp. 162–187.
page number: p. 168, fig. 5; p. 169; p. 170
url: JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24707933.
Robinson, William W. Rembrandt's "Indian Drawings" and His Later Work. New York: Drawing Institute, The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 14-15, fig. 4
url:
Green, Dominic. "The Twain Did Meet." Art & Antiques, (April 2018): 88-93.
page number: Reproduced: p. 92 (right)
url:
Robinson, William W. "A Book of Indian Drawings, by Rembrandt, 25 in Number." In Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India. Stephanie Schrader, ed., 43-60. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018.
page number: pp. 52-53Reproduced: P. 53, fig.38
url:
Schrader, Stephanie, ed. Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 80, pl.1, and cover
url:
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