Shah Jahan
c. 1656–61
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash
- Dimensions
- 22.5 × 17.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190676
Rembrandt’s drawing portrays Shah Jahan, the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1628-58. It is one of twenty-three drawings that Rembrandt made after Indian miniatures, which he had very likely studied in an album then in Holland. By the 18th century, the album had been dismantled, and the model for this drawing now resides at the Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna. Rembrandt imposed his characteristic realist tendencies on a more detailed, formal, and stylized model, bringing the shah to life with especially fine pen strokes on the face and shoes mixed with evanescent brown ink washes around the figure…
Provenance
Fund, 1978.38
Registry history
- c. 1656–61 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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