Lovers Embracing
c. 1630
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Lovers Embracing, c. 1630. India, Popular Mughal School, probably done at Bikaner, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756). Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.91 Erotic metaphors in visual poetry: bees fly to blossoms as rain clouds approach.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Medium
- opaque, watercolor, gold, paper
- 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.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1971.91
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Art and Stories from Mughal India, <em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 4-August 5, 2003)., <em>Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-August 18, 2004).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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