A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto)
1755–1765
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Page: 27.7 x 19.6 cm (10 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.); Page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- Painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century
About
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.