Cleveland Museum of Art
Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto)
Bihzad
- Date
- c. 1485
- Medium
- opaque watercolor 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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