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Lovers Embracing
c. 1630
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The grape-laden vine intertwined around the tree is a poetic visual metaphor for the lovers in close embrace beneath it. The attendant with a fan looks away as the lady on the man’s lap receives a kiss and raises a cup of wine. The sumptuous carpet and bolster patterns have been wrought with the detail and care for which Mughal artists are renowned.
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- Title: Lovers Embracing
- Date Created: c. 1630
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 14.9 x 10.1 cm (5 7/8 x 4 in.); Overall: 24 x 16.8 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/8 in.); with mat: 35.5 x 25.4 cm (14 x 10 in.)
- Provenance: (John D. MacDonald, Manchester, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.91
- Medium: opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Fun Fact: Erotic metaphors in visual poetry: bees fly to blossoms as rain clouds approach.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: India, Popular Mughal School, probably done at Bikaner, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756)
- Credit Line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Collection: Indian Art
- Accession Number: 1971.91
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