id:			170788
accession number:	2013.295
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.295
updated:		2025-05-30 11:09:15.441000

Portrait of a kneeling holy man, from the Prince Salim Album, c. 1556–60; border c. 1602. Attributed to Mir Sayyid Ali (Persian, active in Iran 1540s–50, active in India 1555–1580). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with cream borders decorated with gold flowers and geometric motifs; painting: 12 x 7.1 cm (4 3/4 x 2 13/16 in.); overall: 23.3 x 14.9 cm (9 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, 2013.295

title:				Portrait of a kneeling holy man, from the Prince Salim Album
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creation date:			c. 1556–60; border c. 1602
creation date earliest:		1555
creation date latest:		1565
current location:		242B Indian Painting
creditline:			Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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culture:	Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with cream borders decorated with gold flowers and geometric motifs
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Mir Sayyid Ali (Persian, active in Iran 1540s–50, active in India 1555–1580)  - artist

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measurements: Painting: 12 x 7.1 cm (4 3/4 x 2 13/16 in.); Overall: 23.3 x 14.9 cm (9 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
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	inscription:	[[verso, upper left corner]] 6212
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	inscription:	[[verso, upper left corner]] 20.865
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	inscription:	[[verso, upper center, below crossed out words and circled]] red
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art and Stories from Mughal India
	opening date:   2016-07-31T04:00:00
	<i>Art and Stories from Mughal India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).

	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': 'On loan to the San Diego Museum of Art (2005)', 'opening_date': '2005-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Hagop Kevorkian [1872–1962], New York, NY
	date: Before 1962
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	(Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, lot 47)
	date: December 6, 1967
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	Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection
	date: 1967–2013
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2013–
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		170789
	A mendicant bowing before a holy man, from the Prince Salim Album, c. 1585; inner border added in Allahabad c. 1602; outer border added probably 1900s. Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; page: 32.7 x 21.1 cm (12 7/8 x 8 5/16 in.); painting: 13.6 x 7.5 cm (5 3/8 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, 2013.296
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CITATIONS

	Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. <em>Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. London: D Giles Limited, 2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 2, p. 308, figure 4.34, p. 161; mentioned: pp. 161–162 and 309
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IMAGES

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