Krishna and the Bow, folio 24 from the ‘Tula Ram’ Bhagavata Purana

Object Details

• School/Tradition

  probably Gujurat school

• Provenance

  To 1961

  Tula Ram, Delhi [1]

  From 1961 to 1966

  James K. Ivory, New York, New York

  From 1966 to 2001

  Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), purchased from James K. Ivory, New York, New York in 1961 [2]

  From 2001 to 2018

  Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001

  From 2018

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim

  Notes:

  [1] The manuscript comprised around 70 folios in the 1950s when it was dispersed by a Delhi dealer, Tula Ram. This folio entered a NYC collection in 1966.

  [2] According to Catherine Glynn Benkaim, the painting was purchased by Ralph Benkaim in 1966.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Art of the Indian Subcontinent from Los Angeles Collections (March 4 to March 31, 1968)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Tula Ram

  James K. Ivory (born 1928)

  Ralph and Catherine Benkaim

  Catherine Glynn Benkaim

• Origin

  probably Surat, Gujarat state, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1710s, 1720s

• Name

  Benkaim, Ralph and Catherine, Benkaim, Catherine Glynn, Ivory, James K., Ram, Tula

• Place

  Gujarat state, Surat, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Krishna, Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Bhagavata Purana, Bow

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings