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Seven Goats

CultureIndian
DateJahangir period (1605-1627)
MediumBrown and white colors on green ground
DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 × 4 1/2 inches (17.15 × 11.43 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (23.5 × 14.92 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number41-41
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Persian and Indian Miniature Paintings from the Collections of Demotte, Inc., New York, 1934, no. 75 as Goats, Among them a Mountain Goat.

Miniature Painting of India, Pomona College Art Gallery, Claremont, CA, February 15–March 6, 1957; Pasadena Art Museum (title changed to Indian Miniatures), March 8–March 31, 1957, no cat.

Peasants and Nomads of the Arab World, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, October 1, 1958–February 28, 1959, no cat.

Exhibition for the Committee for UNICEF, Topeka, Kansas, September 24-October 31, 1967, no cat.

Provenance

With George Joseph Demotte (1877–1923), Paris and New York, by 1924 [1];

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1941;

Purchased from Heeramaneck by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.

[1] See Percy Brown’s Indian Painting under the Mughals A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 published in 1924.

Published References

Percy Brown, Indian Painting under the Mughals A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), plate 22, fig. 1, 140, (repro.).

Rudolf M. Riefstahl, An Exhibition of Persian and Indian Miniature Paintings from the Collections of Demotte, Inc., exh. cat. (New York: Gotchnag Press, 1934), 36.

Percy Brown, Indian paintings under the Mughals: A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750. (New York:  Hacker Art Books, 1975), 140, plate 22, fig. 1, (repro.).

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