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A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess
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Fayzullah
Title
A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess
Description
In a scene set on a carpeted terrace in the women’s palace quarters, an older woman of the harem drags a young prince with a white blindfold over his eyes before a princess grasping a document. Such a scene evokes a literary allusion of a princess who selects her suitor, but it also resonates with circumstances at the Mughal court. Signed and dated by the artist, this painting was completed at a time when powerful women wielded control over the emperor, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur (reigned 1748–54), son and successor of Muhammad Shah, had been blinded and deposed less than one year before.
Date 1755
date QS:P571,+1755-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Opaque watercolor and gold on paper (recto)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Current location
Indian and South East Asian Art
Accession number
2013.343.a
Place of creation India, Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century
Credit line 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
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.343.a
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