Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
Unknown Artist
c. 1750
Medium
gum tempera on paper
Dimensions
page: 32.4 × 23.5 cm · miniature: 29.8 × 21.6 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Accession Number
2018.161
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.