Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass

Studies of flower vases in the European manner became a popular subject in Indian miniature painting since the reign of Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–27). The artists would copy Dutch prints, such as those by Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682–1749), and render 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.