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The J. Paul Getty Museum April 8, 2018
Drawing from Mughal India in the Age of Rembrandt
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Drawing from Mughal India in the Age of Rembrandt
To elucidate the importance of India for the Dutch artist
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669) and other Europeans of his
time, this symposium traces historical, political, economic, and
artistic points of contact between Europe and the Mughal Indian
Empire in the early modern period. Using the Getty’s exhibition
Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India as their starting point,
scholars will demonstrate how Mughal paintings and drawings were
brought to Europe not as merely exotic curiosities, but also
carried with them specific associations of political authority and
exceptional artifice.
April 8, 2018
10:00–10:15 a.m. Welcome: Richard Rand, Associate Director for
Collections, J. Paul Getty Museum
10:15–11:45 a.m. How Rembrandt Mediated Mughal Painting:
Papering Over Global Art
Benjamin Schmidt, Giovanni & Amne Costigan Endowed
Professor, Department of History, University of Washington,
Seattle
Rembrandt through Mughal Eyes
Navina Haidar, Curator, Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Discussion
Moderator: Catherine Glynn, Independent Scholar
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12:15–1:45 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:45–3:15 p.m. Indo–Dutch Entanglements in the Age of
Rembrandt
Jos Gommans, Professor of Colonial and Global History, Institute
for History, Leiden University
Philip Angel’s Indian Travels and their Literary and Artistic
Echoes, 1650s–1670s
Carolien Stolte, Assistant Professor, Institute for History,
Leiden University
3:15–3:45 p.m. Discussion
Moderator: Stephanie Schrader, Curator of Drawings, J. Paul
Getty Museum
3:45–4:15 p.m. Break
4:15–5:35 p.m. Collecting Exotica, Picturing New Worlds
Jessica Keating, Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art and
Architecture, Carleton College
From Awadh to Avignon: Examining the French Reception of Mughal
Art
Chanchal Dadlani, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wake
Forest University
5:35–6:00 p.m. Discussion
Moderator: Yael Rice, Assistant Professor of Art & the
History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst
College
Registration
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Cover Images, Left: Shah Jahan (detail), about 1656–58.
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Dark brown ink and
dark brown wash with scratching out on Asian paper toned with light
brown wash, 22.5 × 17 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C.
Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.38. Image © The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Right: Jujhar Singh Bundela Kneels in Submission to Shah Jahan
(detail), about 1630. Bichitr (Mughal, active 1615–1650). Gouache
and gold on paper, 39 × 27.3 cm. Trustees of the Chester Beatty
Library. Image © Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
(CBL In 07A.16). Text and design © 2018 J. Paul Getty Trust
Registration
Advance registration is recommended. Visit
http://bit.ly/mughalrembrandt or call (310) 440–7300 to register.
Registration does not include parking, which is $15 per car and can
be paid using the self–service pay stations.
Related Program
India and the World: A History in Nine Stories Lecture by Naman
Ahuja, Professor at School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New DelhiThe Getty Center, Wednesday, May 23, 7:30 p.m.
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