Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
1750
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1750
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass is a 1750 unspecified by Unknown, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a bright bouquet of pink, yellow, and white flowers rising from a patch of grass. This painting mixes two worlds. European still-life prints arrived in India during the Mughal era, and local artists gave them a magical twist—here, the whole bouquet sprouts from one stem like a tiny tree. The Rajasthani court where this was made loved these playful blends of realism and fantasy. To see more of this style, look up the Rajput kingdom of Bundi.
Studies of flower arrangements in the European manner became a popular subject in Indian miniature painting during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605–27). Inspired by imported prints, Indian artists rendered 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.
The central flower is a scarlet-colored poppy, famed for yielding opium.
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