File:Fayzullah - A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess; verso- scrolling floral - 2013.343 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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Summary
A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess; verso: scrolling floral vines
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| Artist |
Fayzullah |
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| Title |
A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess; verso: scrolling floral vines |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
In a scene set on a carpeted terrace in the women's palace quarters, an older woman of the harem drags a young prince with a white blindfold over his eyes before a princess grasping a document. Such a scene evokes a literary allusion of a princess who selects her suitor, but it also resonates with circumstances at the Mughal court. Signed and dated by the artist, this painting was completed at a time when powerful women wielded control over the emperor, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur (reigned 1748–54), son and successor of Muhammad Shah, had been blinded and deposed less than one year before. |
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| Date | 1755 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Opaque watercolor with gold on paper (recto); opaque watercolor with gold on paper (verso) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indian and Southeast Asian Art |
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| Accession number |
2013.343 |
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| Place of creation | India, Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.343  |
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.343 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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