Jewel Portrait of a Young Girl
Unknown Artist
c. 1660
Medium
ink drawing with slight accents of color
Dimensions
4.6 × 3.8 cm · image: 3.3 × 2.4 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Arthur L. Parker Foundation
Accession Number
1968.71
About this artwork
This small drawing of a young girl wearing a chaghtai cap may be a likeness of a member of a royal or courtly Mughal family. The accuracy of female portraiture is an unresolved issue in Mughal art, as there are many paintings of women that appear to be studies of female beauty rather than visual records of real people. However, because the girl in this painting is not an idealized type, it is more likely that this is a true portrait. Unlike jewel portraits of emperors that were intended to be wo...