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A princess on a terrace with attendants at night (recto); Calligraphy (verso)
c. 1760
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Before a terrace pavilion in the women’s quarters of a palace, a royal woman stretches to show off her figure in accordance with age-old Indian poetic imagery. Female musicians provide entertainment, and attendants hold bottles of wine at the ready. Scenes of enjoyment in sumptuous domestic spaces pervaded the artistic repertoire of the imperial court and regional centers of northern India throughout the late 1700s, following the themes set by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah.
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- Title: A princess on a terrace with attendants at night (recto); Calligraphy (verso)
- Date Created: c. 1760
- Physical Dimensions: Miniature: 25.4 x 19.7 cm (10 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Olsen Collection, Bridgeport, CT, sold to Ralph Benkaim, Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.341
- Medium: opaque watercolor with gold on paper (recto); ink on paper, six lines of Persian poetry (verso)
- Inscriptions: verso: six lines of Persian poetry in nast 'aliq calligraphy
- Fun Fact: Rolled-up textiles could be let down to enclose the space of an open pavilion.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century
- 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
- Collection: Indian Art - Mughal
- Accession Number: 2013.341
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