Shvetambara Jain Teacher Giving Instruction
c. 1750–60
Sahib Ram
Sahib Ram (Indian, active 1745–1803)
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Shvetambara Jain Teacher Giving Instruction, c. 1750–60. Possibly by Sahib Ram (Indian, active 1745–1803). Gum tempera and gold on paper; page: 20 x 27.9 cm (7 7/8 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.171 The monks seated next to the teacher place their whisk-brooms before them.
- Maker/Artist
- Sahib Ram
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Page: 20 x 27.9 cm (7 7/8 x 11 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 2018.171
- Credit Line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- Text and Image in Southern Asia (Indian Painting and Himalayan rotation), <em>The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India</em>, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994/95; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 1995; New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1995; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1995/96.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 242B Indian Painting
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