Unidentified individual, by commission or by purchase from the artist, Muhammad Yusuf (active 19th century) in India [1]
?-?
Ownership information unknown
?-1986
S. Dillon (1913-2001) and Mary Moncrieffe Livingston Ripley (1914-1996), method of acquisition unknown [2]
From 1986
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of S. Dillon and Mary Livingston Ripley [3]
Notes:
[1] See the artist’s name inscribed in red ink along the lower center.
[2] See offer letter from S. Dillion Ripley to Milo Beach, dated August 11, 1986, copy in object file.
Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) was an American ornithologist and served as the 8th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984. His wife, Mary Moncrieffe Livingston Ripley(1914-1996), was an American horticulturist and entomologist. The Dillons travel and temporarily resided in South Asia and Southeast Asia, where they conducted research in their respective scientific fields.
[3] See signed “Deed of Gift to the Arthur M. Sacker Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution,” copy in object file. From 1986-2023 this work was part of the National Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection and on March 21, 2023, the work was internally transferred to the National Museum of Asian Art Collection.
Research updated July 2, 2024
Collection:
National Museum of Asian Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857 (February 7 to May 6 , 2012)
