A nobleman
date: label: Date
content: dated 1687
name: label: Artist
content: Son of Ruknuddin
notes: label: Description
content: A half-length portrait of a noble facing right with his right arm resting on a gold-bordered orange textile draped over a window ledge. His turban is draped in pearls, he wears numerous rubies, and his gold coat has a fur collar. The profile portrait within a jharokha window and the pale green ground are drawn from Mughal painting.
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso: inscription in nagari script: Pata Saha bhaga nagar ro kam rukdi re bete ro sam. 1744 jeth Abul Hasan. Ruler of Bhaganagar by the son of Ruknuddin, vs. 1744/a.d. 1687, month of Jeth. Abul Hasan.
label: Inscriptions
content: Top verso margin: Abdullah Qutub Shah
label: Inscriptions
content: Top verso margin: Abdullah Qutub Shah
label: Provenance
content: To 1967
label: Provenance
content: Sri Moti Chand Khajanchi, Bikaner [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1967 to 2001
label: Provenance
content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001),
label: Provenance
content: purchased from Sri Moti Chand Khajanchi, Bikaner in December [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 2001 to 2018
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001
label: Provenance
content: From 2018
label: Provenance
content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Ralph Benkaim purchased the painting from Sri Moti Chand Khajanchi, Bikaner in December 1967, several years before Indian paintings were classified as antiquities by the Indian government, according to his personal records, as relayed by Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Sri Moti Chand Khajanchi
place: label: Origin
content: Bikaner, Rajasthan state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: portrait
label: Topic
content: man
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
label: Topic
content: turban
label: Topic
content: window
label: Topic
content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
setName: label: See more items in
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: S2018.1.44
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (painting): 11.5 × 8.3 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 21.5 × 16 cm (8 7/16 × 6 5/16 in)