Cleveland Museum of Art
A Family of Tartars
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- India, Punjab, probably Lahore, Company School, 19th century
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 169252
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting depicts men of Turkic descent migrating into India from western Asia. No longer with the ambition to conquer, like the Turko-Mongol rulers Timur (d. 1405) and Babur (c. 1530), the first Mughal emperor, these migrants are seeking new lands in which to settle as immigrants. The highly detailed subjects are placed against a plain background, as if the figures were designed for objective study and categorization. Indian artists made works such as this for the British in India, who were interested in collecting accurate visual records of flora, fauna, and ethnic groups who inhabited the land they colonized in 1858.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Gift of Maxeen and John Flower in honor of Dr. Stanislaw Czuma
- Provenance
- ?-November 2000: (Sam Fogg, London, UK, sold to John and Maxeen Flower) | November 2000-2011: Dr. John and Maxeen Stone Flower [1928-2010], Shaker Heights, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2011-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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