Portrait of a Woman (c 1675–1700): Art, History and Details
Portrait of a Woman at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c 1675–1700, Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Portrait of a Woman (c 1675–1700) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The royal court at Bikaner included Muslim women. This royal woman wears a white cloak covered with a repeating gilded leaf pattern and a screen sewn in at the forehead. When the cloak is pulled over her face for added modesty, she looks out through the screen.
Object facts
- Title: Portrait of a Woman
- Date: c 1675–1700
- Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bikaner
- Type: Painting
- Technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 16.2 x 8.3 cm (6 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.); Paper: 41.6 x 27 cm (16 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Collection: Indian Art - Mughal
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 1987.1110
A detail from the museum
She stands on a cluster of leafy vegetation.
Collection credit
Gift of Flora D. Glass and Elwood G. Glass Jr.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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