A mounted man hunting birds with a falcon

Object Details

• Court

  Mughal Court

• School/Tradition

  Mughal school

• Description

  A mounted man hunting birds with a falcon.

• Provenance

  To 1907

  Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), London, to 1907 [1]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna in 1907 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original List of Persian and Indian Drawings, S.I. 1518, Miscellaneous section of Inventory, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Falcons: The Art of the Hunt (January 15 to July 17, 2022)

  Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)

  Colonel Hanna's Pictures (August 21, 1999 to February 6, 2000)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Kishangarh, Rajasthan state, India

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1700s, 1750s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Hanna, Henry Bathurst

• Place

  Rajasthan state, Kishangarh, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Hunting, Animals, Men, Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858), Horses, Falconry, Falcon

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings