Portrait of a man (late 1700s): Art, History and Details

Portrait of a man (late 1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Pahari artists made multiple sketches before combining elements into a finished painting. Sketches were kept in artist family collections, rather than sold. This man may have been one member of a group of nobles, each one slightly differentiated.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of a man
• Date: late 1700s
• Culture: Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Gum tempera on paper
• Dimensions: Overall: 7.3 x 5.5 cm (2 7/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 2005.69

A detail from the museum

This drawing was once owned by William E. Ward, the CMA’s chief designer from 1957 to 1993, who taught Calligraphy and Watercolor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Collection credit

Gift of Pamela Elizabeth Ward in loving memory of her parents, William E. and Evelyn Svec Ward

View the collection record

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