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Khulasa, a vizier, sees the daughter of Khassa, another vizier, and covets her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first 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: 9.2 x 10.1 cm (3 5/8 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.325.b
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The woman’s figure has been painted over some sections of the tree in the foreground.

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Khulasa watches Khassa’s daughter as she kneels devoutly on a prayer rug in the garden. He touches his index finger to his mouth, signaling his awe and surprise. Despite his love, Khulasa knows that the woman is chaste and will not agree to marry him.
A book page features five lines of Persian script in the upper third and a painting below. In the foreground, a man with a medium-light skin tone and white turban peers over a red brick wall with a central wooden gate. Beyond the wall, a woman with a light skin tone in a gold-accented pink robe lies on a patterned platform surrounded by lush green hills and leafy trees.

Khulasa, a vizier, sees the daughter of Khassa, another vizier, and covets her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night

c. 1560

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

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