Paintings at Cleveland Museum of Art

The old procuress conveys the young man’s message of love to Mansur’s wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventeenth Night

Text, Folio 88 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Chinese Bird on Snow-Laden Branch

A Winter Sky

The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

July

The magician disguised as a Brahman returns to claim his “daughter-in-law,” from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fifth Night

The lion, suspecting treachery on the part of the monkey, slays him and flees, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-ninth Night

Text, Folio 36 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra

Birds on a Tree above a Cataract

Fan-shaped Album Painting

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twelfth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Winter Scene with Plum Trees and Pheasants (Birds Right)

Text, Folio 82 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Sketch for "The Four Prophets of Israel" (for Il Gesù, Rome)

Kaiwan, Latif, and Sharif arrive at a house of worship, where they seek help from Khurshid who has become a mystical healer, from a Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night

West Lake

Folio 20 from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array): Sudhana and a parrot (recto); Text (verso)

The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night

Flowers and Grasses

Italian Landscape

Five Poses of Krishna Making Love, from a Bikaner Bhagavata Purana

Still Life

Painting from a Kalpa-sutra: Queen Trishala Reclining

Summer in the Water Country

Cottage by the River with Washerwomen

Cordelia Parting from her Sisters

Diving Cormorant

A girl worshipping the rising sun (Surya puja)

Text, Folio 12 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Cupid (Amor)

Text, Folio 26 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra

Madame Lerolle

Geese

Double-Leaf Door

Text, folio 179 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)