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The merchant’s daughter meets the gardener, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth 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: 9.8 x 10.1 cm (3 7/8 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.100.b
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Location
242B Indian Painting
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In the time since their first meeting, the gardener has become an ascetic.

Description

Persian books are read from right to left. One artist illustrated the three scenes from one of the 52 stories of the Tuti-nama, retaining many pre-Mughal traits. Trees stand out as bold shapes, and figures are arranged in a single register, or horizontal spatial band, and have angular and expressive gestures. The figures of the women are closely related to pre-Mughal types, shown always in profile and wearing garments that stand stiffly and sharply out before them. In leaves from the Tuti-nama, Mughal artists adapted the colors, compositions, and figure types of the earlier style.
Vertically oriented book page with Persian script in the upper third and a painting below depicting four women with medium-dark to light skin tones, approaching in single file a man with medium-dark skin tone in a garden. The women wear jewelry and blouses and skirts patterned in mainly oranges and blues. The man holds a stick and wears a pink robe, matching the pink brick of the ground and the flowers dotting the trees.

The merchant’s daughter meets the gardener, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night

c. 1560

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

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