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The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras, charmed by the music of a vagabond, comes down to meet him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar

(reigned 1556–1605)
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Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 11.2 x 9.9 cm (4 7/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.119.b
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The whereabouts of the previous folio, probably depicting the parrot addressing Khujasta on the sixteenth night, are unknown.

Description

A ladder connects the daughter-in-law’s chambers to the courtyard below, where the vagabond kneels beneath a tree, a stringed instrument called a rebab in hand, mouth open in song. Because her husband is unpleasant and ill-tempered, the woman falls in love with the musician. The damage to the right side of this page was probably repaired in the early 1800s.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and ink painting consists of three horizontal registers. The top depicts two women with light skin tones flanking a patterned blue bed against a red background. In the middle, a man plays a stringed instrument near a tree and looks at a woman before a pink patterned wall. A ladder leans against the wall on our right. The bottom register contains four lines of black script.

The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras, charmed by the music of a vagabond, comes down to meet him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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