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A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)
A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)
c. 1760
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Opaque watercolor and gold on paper (recto); ink on paper, four lines of Persian poetry (verso)
Page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.342
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Pairs of ducks swim under the full moon on the night of the vernal equinox.
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Images of pleasure and play abound in Mughal paintings of the latter half of the 1700s. Under a full moon reflected off a river and by the light of candles, a prince celebrates the spring festival of Holi with a group of palace women. Holi festivities include the boisterous tradition of smearing one another with colored powders—shown heaped on dishes—or shooting colored liquid using plunger guns.
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