Bowman, musician and dervish from the Kevorkian album

Object Details

• Court

  Mughal Court

• School/Tradition

  Mughal school

• Label

  This painting, produced in the early nineteenth century at the very end of the Mughal period, reveal the manner in which artists clung tenaciously to tradition.

  The floral borders added to the painting, though highly abstracted when compared with earlier workmanship, reproduce the taste of older Mughal work, and speak in general of a nostalgia for the past. When viewing such a painting, one must remember that copying in the Persian and Mughal context was considered a tribute to as master, and "signing" a master's name to a newly created work was a token of deep respect.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  At the Margins (June 4 to November 30, 1997)

  South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)

• Origin

  India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1890s

• Place

  India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Reign of Jahangir (1605 - 1627), Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858), Flowers, Bow, Lute, Musicians

• Culture

  Dervishes, Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script

• Object Type

  Paintings