The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) is a 1560 unspecified by Daswanth, a mughal_painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a woman in a green robe sitting on a gold carpet while a bright green parrot perches on a branch above her. This painting comes from a book of stories told by a parrot to delay a woman’s secret meeting. The artist worked in the court of Emperor Akbar, where painters blended Persian and Indian styles. Tiny details—like the soft grass tufts—show the same hand that painted other pages in the book. To see more work from this time, look up mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
