The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
The Place of Jesus’s birth, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
1602–4
Location: not on view
Description
Instead of a stable, the artist has interpreted the place of Jesus’s birth as an abandoned ruin. Mary is cleaning it with a peacock-feather whisk, while Joseph negotiates with a man dressed in full Mughal attire at the doorway. The camel is laden with belongings and an Indian-style bed.- Before 1930s-2005An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s through 20052005(Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, UK, 2005, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2005-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2005-present
- Prince Salim's Life of Christ (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 2, 2019-July 1, 2020).Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 5-April 27, 2015)
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.145.25.b