Krishna and his family admire a solar eclipse, perhaps a page from the “Kangra/Modi” <em>Bhagavata Purana</em>
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1780
name: label: Artist
content: First generation after Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778)
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Kangra school
label: Marks
content: Verso: personal seal of Abdur Rahman Chughtai.
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso: some Urdu and English inscriptions.
label: Provenance
content: To 1975
label: Provenance
content: Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897-1975), Lahore, Pakistan [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1975 to 2008
label: Provenance
content: Arif Rahman Chughtai, ownership transferred after the death of his father, Abdur Rahman Chughtai in 1975 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 2008 to 2017
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, purchased from Arif Rahman Chughtai in the United States in September 2008
label: Provenance
content: From 2017
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] The painting has a personal seal of Abdur Rahman Chughtai. One of Pakistan’s leading twentieth-century artists, Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897-1975) built up a substantial collection of Indian paintings over the course of his career. This painting is likely to have left Himachal Pradesh for Pakistan before 1972 (when Chughtai was 75 years old). The artist’s own works and his collection of Indian court paintings went to his son, Arif Rahman Chughtai, who registered many of the Indian paintings as property of a museum dedicated to his father’s art. This painting does not bear the stamp of the Chughtai museum, which indicates that it was not registered with the Pakistani government as the property of the Chughtai museum.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See notes 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file, Collections Management Office.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1894-1975)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Arif Rahman Chughtai
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
place: label: Origin
content: Kangra, Himachal Pradesh state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: landscape
label: Topic
content: Krishna
label: Topic
content: Bhagavata Purana
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: eclipse
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
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 from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F2017.13.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 20 × 28.3 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/8 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (painted border): 19.4 × 27.9 cm (7 5/8 × 11 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image within border): 15.7 × 23.8 cm (6 3/16 × 9 3/8 in)