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A charioteer riding through a rocky landscape with an entourage of footmen and musicians, page from a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)

1616–17

attributed to Yusuf Ali

(Indian, active early 1600s)
India, Mughal, 17th century, made for Abd al-Rahim the Khan Khanan
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Page: 43.5 x 28.3 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
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 2013.322
Location: Not on view
  • before 1962–1970
    Hagop Kevorkian (1872–1962), New York, NY
    December 7, 1970
    (Sotheby’s, London, England. Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, 7 December 1970 sale, lot 110)
    1970–2013
    Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection
    2013–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. cat. 50
    "Exhibitions.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 56, no. 5 (September/October 2016): 4. Reproduced: p. 4 (recto) archive.org
  • Indian gallery rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 2, 2015-March 15, 2016).
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