Elephant and rider, Keshavdas (possibly), c. 1580 - c. 1590

Identification

Title(s)

Elephant and rider
Olifant met berijder

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-521

Description

Kornak op olifant.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Keshavdas (possibly)

Place

India

Dating

c. 1580 - c. 1590

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 347 mm × width 266 mm
height 189 mm × width 125 mm

Subject

What

trunked animals: elephant

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Gerrit-Jan Verburgt bequest, 1969)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, London (Sotheby), 1924;{Note RMA.}…; collection of Gerrit-Jan Verburgt (1871-1926), The Hague, 1926;{Note RMA.} his widow Carolina Geertruida Verburgt-Kramers (1876-1968), The Hague, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1969;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

50 x India : de 50 mooiste miniaturen van het Rijksmuseum, p. 30 - 31, afb.
De verborgen wereld : Nederland en India vanaf 1550, Jos Gommans, p. 213, afb. 3.40
The unseen world : the Netherlands and India from 1550, Jos Gommans, p. 213, ill. 3.40
M.C. Beach, The Moghul painter Kesu Das, in: Archives of Asian Art, XXX, 1976-1977, fig. 5.
Cat. Legaat Verburgt, nr. 31. (Bulletin van de Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst. Derde Serie 19-20 (1970))

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