Cleveland Museum of Art

Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)

Date

c. 1485

Medium

opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

Culture

Afghanistan or Iran, Timurid period (1370–1501)

Department

Islamic Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The painting is the left side of a double composition; at the upper left are musicians who provide ambient entertainment. A cook prepares meat over a brazier, while a servant brings kebab on a shallow bowl. The unfinished state of this painting reveals the artist's process of creating underdrawings that are filled with color. The verso has an example of calligraphy. Intoxicated, a man in blue at the lower right has fallen.

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