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A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)
The Cleveland Museum of Art · 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
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A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)

c. 1760

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1950s-September 1966

(Olsen Foundation, Bridgeport, CT, sold to Ralph Benkaim)

1966-2013

(Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cl...

2013-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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(Olsen Foundation, Bridgeport, CT, sold to Ralph Benkaim) (Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 28-November 2, 2015). 2013.342.a only Beauty in Asia. Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore (May 3-September 23, 2007).

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Images of pleasure and play abound in Mughal paintings of the latter half of the 1700s. Under a full moon reflected off a river and by the light of candles, a prince celebrates the spring festival of Holi with a group of palace women. Holi festivities include the boisterous tradition of smearing one another with colored powders—shown heaped on dishes—or shooting colored liquid using plunger guns.

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