Cleveland Museum of Art
European Costume Scene
- Date
- c. 1590–1595
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Culture
- India, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756)
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This painting of European subjects by an unnamed Indian artist depicts an unidentified scene in which two merchants approach a pavilion where a seated lady receives a kneeling holy man unrolling a scroll before her. The figures wear garments associated with different periods, which increases the painting’s ambiguity. The distant cityscape in the upper left corner is a Mughal version of the type introduced into India by Jesuit missionaries who brought gifts of European paintings and engravings.
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