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The lover of Hamnaz, who has been hanged from the gallows, bites off her nose when she kisses him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth 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: 13.5 x 10.1 cm (5 5/16 x 4 in.)
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Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.177.a
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The gallows originally had four legs, discernible under infrared light.

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Hamnaz stands on a stool embracing her lover as he hangs. He has been put to death as punishment for being caught in their affair. Disfiguring her face serves as his final act of vengeance.
A book page features Persian script in bands flanking a vertically oriented tempera painting. Within a golden border, a man and woman with medium skin tones are depicted centrally. The man hangs by his neck from wooden gallows. Standing on a patterned stool to our left, the woman kisses him while he bites her nose. Behind them, a purple field sits before blue mountains and a gold sky.

The lover of Hamnaz, who has been hanged from the gallows, bites off her nose when she kisses him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

c. 1560

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

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