id:			170801
accession number:	2013.303.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.303.a
updated:		2022-09-10 11:52:43.641000

Lovers Parting, Page from a Book of Fables, c. 1590–95. Northern India, Mughal court, 16th century. Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, mounted on an album leaf with inner borders of gold-sprinkled blue paper and outer plain cream borders (recto); page: 36.1 x 24.8 cm (14 3/16 x 9 3/4 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 2013.303.a

title:				Lovers Parting, Page from a Book of Fables
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creation date:			c. 1590–95
creation date earliest:		1585
creation date latest:		1600
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creditline:			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
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culture:	Northern India, Mughal court, 16th century
technique:	opaque watercolor with gold on paper, mounted on an album leaf with inner borders of gold-sprinkled blue paper and outer plain cream borders (recto)
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Painting
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measurements: Page: 36.1 x 24.8 cm (14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Banyavati inscription in Devenagari script in left margin describing the subject of the miniature: 'We failed to understand each other when we were together, the understanding in that respect may come to us on being separated". 
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245); December 31, 2013 - June 30, 2014.

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wall description: 
The lovers have met in a remote wilderness location, away from the city shown in the distance. However, their affair has run its course, and they decide to part ways, each walking in opposite directions through an ominous landscape, where strange rock formations and an oversized serpent-slain by foxes gnawing on its innards-lend a sense of foreboding. As Mughal court painting developed into the last decades of the 16th century, artists began using increasingly muted colors and gentler shading techniques than they did in the more robust Adventures of Hamza at the left. The omission of a light source and shadows adds to a timeless, otherworldly impression to the landscape.
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