Princess and attendant in trompe l’oeil window
c. 1765
Aqil Khan
Aqil Khan (Indian, active mid-1700s)
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Princess and attendant in trompe l’oeil window, c. 1765. Aqil Khan (Indian, active mid-1700s). Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; image: 12.5 x 7.8 cm (4 15/16 x 3 1/16 in.); overall: 44 x 31.6 cm (17 5/16 x 12 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George P. Bickford 1955.297 Unlike in portraits of the emperor, women sit on the outside of the royal window.
- Maker/Artist
- Aqil Khan
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Medium
- opaque, watercolor, gold, paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.5 x 7.8 cm (4 15/16 x 3 1/16 in.); Overall: 44 x 31.6 cm (17 5/16 x 12 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: 'amal 'Aqil Khān Translation: Signed in lower right of miniature by the artist
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1955.297
- Credit Line
- Gift of George P. Bickford
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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