Basawan

Basawan

India · 1560 – 1600 · 18 works

Period of activity

Artworks (17)

Peinture
1560

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Cleveland Museum of Art
1560

The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals his identity by braying aloud, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-first Night

Cleveland Museum of Art
1560

The hunter throws away the baby parrots, who pretend to be dead, and captures the mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Cleveland Museum of Art
1560

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Cleveland Museum of Art
1560

The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Cleveland Museum of Art
1570

Mihrdukht aims her arrow at the ring

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1575

Courtier Awaiting Akbar's Command

Arthur M. Sackler Museum
1585

A holy man prostrating himself before a learned prince

Cleveland Museum of Art
1587

A mendicant bowing before a holy man, from the Prince Salim Album

Cleveland Museum of Art
1589

A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)

Cleveland Museum of Art
1590

Akbar visits the tomb of Khwajah Mu'in ad-Din Chishti at Ajmer

Victoria and Albert Museum
1590

The Virgin and Child

San Diego Museum of Art
1590

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, page from a manuscript of the Akbarnama

Art Institute of Chicago
1596

The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian, 1247–1318)

Cleveland Museum of Art
1600

Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank

Cleveland Museum of Art
1612

Majnun and the emaciated horse

Indian Museum

A Mughal and a Rajput Converse at Dusk

Arthur M. Sackler Museum