id:			153626
accession number:	1987.153.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.153.a
updated:		2025-05-09 18:31:04.995000

Harem night-bathing scene, from the Late Shah Jahan Album (recto), c. 1653. Mughal India, court of Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–58). Gum tempera, gold, and ink on paper; overall: 37.8 x 27.3 cm (14 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alton W. Whitehouse, 1987.153.a

title:				Harem night-bathing scene, from the Late Shah Jahan Album (recto)
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creation date:			c. 1653
creation date earliest:		1648
creation date latest:		1658
current location:		242B Indian Painting
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alton W. Whitehouse
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culture:	Mughal India, court of Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–58)
technique:	Gum tempera, gold, and ink on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 37.8 x 27.3 cm (14 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 28–November 2, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2015-04-28T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1987–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<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: 	Reproduced: p. 26, cat. no. 5
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