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The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth 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: 7.8 x 10.1 cm (3 1/16 x 4 in.)
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Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.146.b
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The stain above the painting is from the acidic green pigment used to paint a tree on the reverse.

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After the sudden, apparent death of the pious man’s daughter, her three suitors take her body from its grave. One of the suitors, a doctor, realizes that the woman is not dead and proposes flailing her to restore her consciousness. After she is successfully revived, the men resume their rivalry.
A vertically oriented manuscript page features black Persian calligraphy above a painting of four people with light skin tones on a green hill. On our right, a man in a purple floral robe raises a thin rod toward a kneeling woman in blue and gold. To our left, two men in patterned orange and blue robes observe. A white tiered building and tower rise in the background, all framed by a thin gold border.

The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night

c. 1560

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

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