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The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

c. 1560
Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600) visual detail
ArtistShravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600)
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Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 10.5 x 10 cm (4 1/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
Indian Art
Origin
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry

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Provenance

Public
?–1959

Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881–1958], Bowie, MD

1959–1962?

(Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA)

1959?–1962

(Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from...

1962–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881–1958], Bowie, MD (Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA) (Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Source exhibition text

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245); December 31, 2013 - June 30, 2014.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

The lover of the unfaithful wife sent a female messenger to arrange for their rendezvous. In a false display of horror, the wily adulteress blackened the face of the messenger as though to disgrace her and threw her out of the house, ordering her to be dumped by the side of a canal. That act, however, was a coded message to her lover to meet at the dark of night at that same location. The Indian artist Shravana added the pink brick wall to lend a sense of depth and dimensionality to the scene.

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