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Drawing of a Man’s Head with an Unusual Turban
c. 1780
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Miniature: 22.6 x 16.5 cm (8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Kishangarh
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The painting is a study of a man’s head, perhaps for a finished portrait. It was a common practice among artists to make preparatory sketches of people, to be manifested in later portraits. The artist has rendered the drawing with heavy outline on the eyebrows, eye, and moustache, while soft tones are employed for the modelling of the face.
