The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
European Costume Scene
c. 1590–1595
(1526-1756)
Image: 21.5 x 13.4 cm (8 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
This painting of European subjects by an unnamed Indian artist depicts an unidentified scene in which two merchants approach a pavilion where a seated lady receives a kneeling holy man unrolling a scroll before her. The figures wear garments associated with different periods, which increases the painting’s ambiguity. The distant cityscape in the upper left corner is a Mughal version of the type introduced into India by Jesuit missionaries who brought gifts of European paintings and engravings.- Indian Gallery 242b Rotation – November 2016. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2016-April 10, 2017).Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115); February 20 - August 18, 2004.Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115); February 4 - August 5, 2003.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.89