1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a woman in a red dress watching a jackal lose its fish to a big bird. The jackal stands on a rock, looking up as the bird flies off with its meal. This painting is from a book of parrot tales told to Emperor Akbar. The story teaches a lesson: be happy with what you have. The woman in the scene was left alone in the wild, and the jackal’s bad luck helps her learn to go home. To see more paintings like this, look up *Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)*.
