id: 170887 accession number: 2013.350 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.350 updated: 2022-09-10 11:52:59.111000 A night scene of Shiva puja (recto); Calligraphy (verso), c. 1760–70. Attributed to Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s), Ahmad al-Husaini. Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, wide borders of pink paper (recto); gold on blue paper, four lines of thuluth calligraphy (verso); page: 28.2 x 24.1 cm (11 1/8 x 9 1/2 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 2013.350 title: A night scene of Shiva puja (recto); Calligraphy (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1760–70 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1775 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: India, Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century technique: opaque watercolor with gold on paper, wide borders of pink paper (recto); gold on blue paper, four lines of thuluth calligraphy (verso) department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art - Mughal type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s) - artist * Ahmad al-Husaini - artist --- measurements: Page: 28.2 x 24.1 cm (11 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Art of the Indian Subcontinent from Los Angeles Collections. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (March 4-31, 1968). * Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). --- PROVENANCE Sir Charles Forbes, 7th Baronet [1773-1849], Bengal, London, and Scotland, by descent to his great-grandson, Colonel Sir John Forbes date: before 1811-1849 footnotes: citations: Colonel Sir John Stewart Forbes [1901-1984], Baronet, DSO, DL, Allargue House, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, consigned to Sotheby's London for sale date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby’s, London, Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 10 December 1962, lot 2, sold to Ralph Benkaim) date: December 10, 1962 footnotes: citations: Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1962-2013 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2013- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The linga is a stylized phallic symbol denoting the creative capacities of Shiva. digital description: wall description: Hindu women had been prominent members of Mughal harems since the time of Akbar, whose chief queen was a Hindu princess from the kingdom of Amber (later renamed Jaipur) in present-day Rajasthan. Under golden stars and a crescent moon, this royal palace woman holds a flower garland to offer at a shrine to the Hindu god Shiva. The light of butter lamps casts a shadow behind her figure; experimentation with the depiction of shadows, typically absent in earlier Mughal painting, increased among artists during the 1700s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 88, p. 274 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.350/2013.350_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.350/2013.350_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.350/2013.350_full.tif