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A traveler persuades Lorik to return home (top); Chanda objects (bottom), from a Chandayana (Story of Chanda)

c. 1540

Sultanate India

Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Image: 19.7 x 14 cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Overall: 25.5 x 20 cm (10 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of D. J. R. Ushikubo, The John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, and Bequest of James Parmelee by exchange 1981.55
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Location
242B Indian Painting
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Description

Chanda is the heroine of a Sufi romance. The Sufis are a mystical branch of Islam whose followers cultivate love for the divine. This painting is from a dispersed manuscript of the Chandayana painted in a style that was an important source for Mughal painting. Its artists integrated Persian colors and delicate vine motifs with figures presented in profile, within flat, compartmentalized registers, which are horizontal divisions of space. The drama of their interactions is conveyed by means of animated gestures.
Vertically oriented painting with scenes broken across two rectangles like floors in a building topped with three tent-like striped coverings. In the upper room, two men flank a seated central man against a beige background. In the lower, a man and woman sit facing each other against a light green background. All are shown in profile and have light skin tones. They are surrounded by repeated gold vine motifs.

A traveler persuades Lorik to return home (top); Chanda objects (bottom), from a Chandayana (Story of Chanda)

c. 1540

Sultanate India

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