Harem night-bathing scene, from the Late Shah Jahan Album (recto)

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alton W. Whitehouse

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Harem night-bathing scene, from the Late Shah Jahan Album (recto)

c. 1653

Medium: Gum tempera, gold, and ink on paper
Dimensions: Overall: 37.8 x 27.3 cm (14 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: Indian Art
Origin: Mughal India, court of Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–58)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alton W. Whitehouse

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Provenance

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1987–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Indian Painting of the 1500s: Continuities and Transformations

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Indian Painting of the 1500s: Continuities and Transformations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 15, 2025-January 11, 2026). Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 28–November 2, 2015).

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Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi (Persian, active in Herat, Afghanistan, died c. 1550) · 1495

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The subject of women bathing persisted throughout the 1500s and into the 1600s. Akbar’s grandson Shah Jahan—the Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal—continued to support the work of artists in the imperial atelier. His taste was more formal and subdued, without as much interest in illuminations of fantastic tales. This scene is a single painting mounted in an album. The white marble terraces glow under the moonlight. An attendant carrying a cloth over one arm looks on with awe at the beauty of the scene. He is probably a eunuch, since men were not permitted to serve in the women’s quarters of a Mughal palace.

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