Cleveland Museum of Art
Posthumous portrait of Raja Chhatar Singh of Chamba smoking a hookah
- Date
- c. 1700
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on paper
- Culture
- Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 314243
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Raja Chattar Singh’s reign, from 1664 to 1690, is considered to be a period of prosperity for Chamba. During that time, boundaries of the kingdoms were expanded, and the economy thrived. He is best known for defying the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s orders to demolish all the Hindu temples in his realm. Instead, he installed copper gilt wooden umbrellas on the temples, many of which exist to this day. The Raja wears a Central Asian robe instead of the popular Mughal jama.
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- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1968: Unknown | ?–2012: Doris Wiener, New York, NY | 2012–2018: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Los Angeles | 2018–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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