id:			137363
accession number:	1962.279.100.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.100.b
updated:		2022-11-23 10:00:38.965000

The merchant’s daughter meets the gardener, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night, c. 1560. India, Mughal court, 16th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); painting only: 9.8 x 10.1 cm (3 7/8 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.100.b

title:				The merchant’s daughter meets the gardener, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night
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creation date:			c. 1560
creation date earliest:		1555
creation date latest:		1565
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture:	India, Mughal court, 16th century
technique:	gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 9.8 x 10.1 cm (3 7/8 x 4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Adventures of Hamza
	opening date:   2002-06-21T00:00:00
	<i>The Adventures of Hamza</i>. Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC (organizer) (June 21-September 29, 2002); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (November 1, 2002-January 26, 2003).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Arthur M.Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (6/21/2002 - 9/9/2002); The Brooklyn Museum of Art (11/1/2002 - 1/26/2003): "The Adventures of Hamza", exh. cat. no. 13, pp. 70-71.<br><br>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245): April 28, 2015 - November 2, 2015.

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of Breckenridge Long, Bowie, MD, 1959; Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA; Bernard Brown, Milwaukee, WI;
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fun fact: 
In the time since their first meeting, the gardener has become an ascetic.

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wall description: 
Among the illustrations in the Tales of a Parrot, this painting is one of the most representative of local Indian styles, with very few Persian features. Trees stand out as bold shapes, and figures are arranged in a single register and have angular and expressive gestures. The female figures are closely related to pre-Mughal types, shown always in profile and wearing garments that stand stiffly and sharply out before them.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel J. Ehnbom. The Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript and the Origins of Mughal Painting. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.
	page number: 	pp. 79, 113
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	Seyller, John. “Overpainting in the Cleveland T̤ūtīnāma.” <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318.
	page number: 	pp. 113-114
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249892

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