id: 170850 accession number: 2013.333 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.333 updated: 2023-05-25 11:12:06.046000 A House Burgled at Night, c. 1700. Mughal India. Gum tempera and gold on paper; page: 38.7 x 28.7 cm (15 1/4 x 11 5/16 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 2013.333 title: A House Burgled at Night title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1700 creation date earliest: 1695 creation date latest: 1705 current location: 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 copyright: --- culture: Mughal India technique: Gum tempera and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art - Mughal type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Page: 38.7 x 28.7 cm (15 1/4 x 11 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2016 opening date: 2016-11-07T05:00:00 Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2016. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2016-April 10, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (7/31/2016-10/23/2016); Art and Stories from Mughal India, cat. 71, p. 248. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In this night scene a band of robbers have climbed over the walls of a Mughal house and, from a courtyard, are successfully carrying out the possessions of its owners while a lady flees through the door. The speed of her movement is expressed in the swinging motion of her diaphanous skirt and the scarf clutched in her hand, as well as by the shoes abandoned on the ground in her haste. This depiction of unruly behavior and its effects are perhaps an expression of the violent succession of emperors that threw the Mughal court into distress at the beginning of the 18th century. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.333/2013.333_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.333/2013.333_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.333/2013.333_full.tif