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Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass

Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass

c. 1750
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The central flower is a scarlet-colored poppy, famed for yielding opium.

Description

Studies of flower arrangements in the European manner became a popular subject in Indian miniature painting during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605–27). Inspired by imported prints, Indian artists rendered them in Mughal fashion. Here, in a painting made at a Rajasthani court, the entire bouquet grows magically out of the ground from a single stem.
  • ?–2018
    Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2018–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Nature Supernatural (Indian Painting rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2023-March 3, 2024).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.161