A Rathor Noble Visiting a Holy Man at a Vishnu Shrine (c. 1760): Art, History and Details
A Rathor Noble Visiting a Holy Man at a Vishnu Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1760, gum tempera and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
A Rathor Noble Visiting a Holy Man at a Vishnu Shrine (c. 1760) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
A naked Jain monk sits before a Rajput noble, whose triple mark on the brow indicate that he is a follower of the Hindu god Shiva. Behind them is a temple dedicated to Vishnu. In a visual statement of ecumenism, all three religions appear to coexist peacefully in the kingdom. The noble has set down his sword and shield and enjoys a hookah while listening to the discourse of the monk.
Object facts
- Title: A Rathor Noble Visiting a Holy Man at a Vishnu Shrine
- Date: c. 1760
- Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar
- Type: Painting
- Technique: gum tempera and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Page: 33.4 x 29.3 cm (13 1/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
- Collection: Indian Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 2018.202
A detail from the museum
Monks belonging to the Digambara (Sky-clad) sect of Jainism renounce the comforts of clothing.
Collection credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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