A woman mistakes a cow for the Angel of Death, from a Lights of Canopus (Anwar-i Suhaili) of Kashifi (Iranian, d. 1504)
c. 1610
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
A woman mistakes a cow for the Angel of Death, from a Lights of Canopus (Anwar-i Suhaili) of Kashifi (Iranian, d. 1504), c. 1610. Mughal India, court of Jahangir (1605–1627). Gum tempera on paper; painting: 19.7 x 10.2 cm (7 3/4 x 4 in.); framed: 38.1 x 26.7 cm (15 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Silver and Deborah Lader in memory of Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver 2019.81 A previous owner identified the scene as the first cesarean section.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Gum tempera on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: 19.7 x 10.2 cm (7 3/4 x 4 in.); Framed: 38.1 x 26.7 cm (15 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: walida-i-rustam Translation: 'The Mother of Rustam' Remark: inscription in the back of the painting Inscription: Zal Remark: The short inscription on the drawing is the identification of the elderly gentleman as Zal, Rustam's father.
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 2019.81
- Credit Line
- Gift of Michael Silver and Deborah Lader in memory of Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver
- Exhibitions
- Animal Fables of India (Indian art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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