A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)

c. 1760

Maker Unknown

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso), c. 1760. India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper (recto); ink on paper, four lines of Persian poetry (verso); page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, 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 2013.342 Pairs of ducks swim under the full moon on the night of the vernal equinox.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Maker Unknown
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: opaque watercolor and gold on paper (recto); ink on paper, four lines of Persian poetry (verso)
Medium: opaque, watercolor, gold, paper, recto, ink, lines, persian, poetry, verso
Dimensions: Page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: verso: Persian verse in nasta‘liq script: Your eyes have shed so much blood in the world at large/ That around your home corpses are strewn together in disorderly piles./ A hundred thousand faces were cast into molds of loveliness and beauty/ But rarely came out stamped as comely as you.
Departments: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Accession Number: 2013.342
Credit Line: 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
Exhibitions: Art and Stories from Mughal India, <em>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 28-November 2, 2015). 2013.342.a only, <em>Beauty in Asia</em>. Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore (May 3-September 23, 2007).
Rights Statement: CC0