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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)

1616–1617

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
  • Collection of Hagop Kevorkian (1872–1962), New York, before 1962
    Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, 7 December 1970, lot 110
  • "Exhibitions.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 56, no. 5 (September/October 2016): 4. Reproduced: p. 4 (recto).
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art (7/31/2016-10/23/2016); Art and Stories from Mughal India, cat. 50.
    Main gallery rotation (gallery 245): November 2, 2015 -
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