id:			387702
accession number:	2020.204
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.204
updated:		2024-03-26 02:02:11.744000

Rustam Takes Aim at Ashkabus, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings), c. 1425–50. Sultanate India, Deccan or Malwa. Gum tempera and ink on paper; folio: 31.8 x 25.6 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.); painting: 13.7 x 20.5 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2020.204

title:				Rustam Takes Aim at Ashkabus, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings)
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creation date:			c. 1425–50
creation date earliest:		1420
creation date latest:		1460
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Sultanate India, Deccan or Malwa
technique:	Gum tempera and ink on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Folio: 31.8 x 25.6 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.); Painting: 13.7 x 20.5 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	The heavens themselves echo the action of the arrow;/ 
Fate said “Take it!” and Fortune nodded “Give!”/ 
The Heavens cried, “Excellent!” and the Moon said “Well Done!”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Martial Art of India (Indian Painting rotation)
	opening date:   2022-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Martial Art of India (Indian Painting rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 21, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Muhammad Fazil
	date: by 1696–after 1718
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	Nizam of Hyderabad, sold to Isidore Kahane
	date: ?–c. 1960
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	(Isidore Kahane [1921–2004], Zürich, Switzerland, sold to private collector)
	date: c. 1960–by 1987
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	Private Collection, Europe, sold to Francesca Galloway and Sam Fogg
	date: c. 1987–c. 2017
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	(Francesca Galloway and Sam Fogg, London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: c. 2017–2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Goswamy, B. N. <em>A Jainesque Sultanate Shahnama and the Context of Pre-Mughal Painting in India</em>. Zürich, Swizerland: Museum Rietberg, 1988.
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	Welch, Stuart Cary. “Encounters with India: Land of Gold, Spices, and Matters Spiritual.” In <em>Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration</em>, edited by Jay A. Levenson, pp. 363-366. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1991.
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	Mason, Darielle, and B. N. Goswamy. <em>Intimate Worlds: Indian Paintings from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection</em>. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	p. 42
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	Goswamy, B. N. “The Master of the Jainesque Sultanate <em>Shahnama</em>.” In <em>Masters of Indian Painting</em>, edited by Milo C. Beach, Eberhard Fischer, and B.N. Goswamy, pp. 41–52. Zurich, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 2011.
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IMAGES

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