Cleveland Museum of Art
Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
- Date
- c. 1750
- Medium
- gum tempera on paper
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Studies of flower arrangements in the European manner became a popular subject in Indian miniature painting during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605–27). Inspired by imported prints, Indian artists rendered them in Mughal fashion. Here, in a painting made at a Rajasthani court, the entire bouquet grows magically out of the ground from a single stem. The central flower is a scarlet-colored poppy, famed for yielding opium.
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