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May 24, 2016
Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
c. 1750
Gum tempera on paper
Page: 32.4 x 23.5 cm (12 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.); Miniature: 29.8 x 21.6 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.161
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The central flower is a scarlet-colored poppy, famed for yielding opium.
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Studies of flower vases in the European manner became a popular subject in Indian miniature painting since the reign of Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–27). The artists would copy Dutch prints, such as those by Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682–1749), and render 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.
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