Cleveland Museum of Art
A princess reclining on a terrace with attendants
- Date
- c. 1730–1740
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Culture
- India, Mughal, 18th century
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 170861
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This scene presents an idealized view of the life of a Mughal princess. Bejeweled and dressed in costly garments, she reclines on a couch set up on a white marble terrace. She watches two musicians sing and clap time, and a companion pours for her a cup of liquor. Two attendants stand behind, one waving a whisk to keep away the insects and another holding a box of paan, a betel-leaf preparation for freshening the breath. At the far right an older woman of the harem holds a fan while enjoying a hookah. White is the color worn by widows.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Provenance
- Sotheby’s, London, Important Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 11 April 1961, lot 35 | Collection of Prince Michael Radziwill (b. 1907), London | Christie’s, London, Art and Textiles of the Islamic and Indian World, 7 October 2011, lot 391 | Ramesh Kapoor, New York, until March 2012
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