Painting from a Kalpa-sutra: Queen Trishala Reclining (c. 1450–75): Art, History and Details

Painting from a Kalpa-sutra: Queen Trishala Reclining (c. 1450–75) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Until recently, and especially during the 1800s and early 1900s, the paintings in South Asian manuscripts were excised and mounted as individual works of art. These two paintings from a Jain manuscript of the Kalpa-sutra have been separated from the text and mounted with gold-flecked borders, like pictures in an album.

Object facts

• Title: Painting from a Kalpa-sutra: Queen Trishala Reclining
• Date: c. 1450–75
• Culture: Western India, Gujarat
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Gum tempera and gold on paper; 18th century gold flecked border
• Dimensions: Painting: 9.5 x 6.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.); Overall: 22.2 x 16.5 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1925.1340

A detail from the museum

Queen Trishala is enjoying a happy pregnancy with the Jina-to-be.

Collection credit

Gift of J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.

View the collection record

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