A Princess on a Terrace with Attendants at Night (recto) (c. 1760): Art, History and Details
A Princess on a Terrace with Attendants at Night (recto) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1760, Gum tempera and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
A Princess on a Terrace with Attendants at Night (recto) (c. 1760) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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.
Object facts
- Title: A Princess on a Terrace with Attendants at Night (recto)
- Date: c. 1760
- Culture: India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century
- Type: Painting
- Technique: Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Miniature: 25.4 x 19.7 cm (10 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Collection: Indian Art - Mughal
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 2013.341.a
A detail from the museum
Rolled-up textiles could be let down to enclose the space of an open pavilion.
Collection credit
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
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