Paintings at Cleveland Museum of Art

The Mutiny of the Heroine Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi

The Marriage of Rukmini [Mangal]

Illustration of the Mahabharata

Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto)

A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess; verso: scrolling floral vines

Krishna Stealing Curds

Maharana Jagat Singh Attending the Raslila

Two Elephants Fighting in a Courtyard Before Muhammad Shah

Bijan killing the wild boars of Irman, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020) (verso)

A charioteer riding through a rocky landscape with an entourage of footmen and musicians, page from a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)

Court lady singing and playing the vina (recto)

Man Dyeing Cloth

A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess (recto)

Court Lady Pouring Wine (recto); Calligraphy of Lyrical Quatrains (verso)

Text of Rustam and Suhrab, from the Shah-nama of Firdausi (Persian, c. 934–1020) (verso)

Divine couple seated in a lotus blossom

Baby Krishna Asking for Butter from Yashoda, from a Kalighat album

Shakyamuni Triad: Buddha Attended by Manjushri and Samantabhadra

Virahini Nayika, Love-Torn Heroine

Women bathing before an architectural panorama

A princess on a terrace with attendants at night (recto); Calligraphy (verso)

A Brahmin gives Krishna the Message or Invitation for the Competition to Rukmini’s Svayamvara, from a Bhagavata Purana

A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)

Flowering Marigold (verso)

Text of Rustam and Suhrab, from the Shah-nama of Firdausi (Persian, c. 934–1020) (recto)

Two Women Pluck Flowers on a Terrace: Gunakali Ragini, from a Ragamala

The Dream of Zuleykha

Three Musicians Perform Before a King: Shri Raga, from a Ragamala

From Dohras (Songs) 40 and 42 from the Kitab-i Nauras (Book of Nine Essences) of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur (r. 1580–1627) (recto)

Prince and ascetics, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

The Lover Leaves Wistfully in the Morning after a Passionate Tryst: Lalit Ragini, from a Ragamala

Brahma Hides the Cowherds and the Calves in the Cave, page from a Bhagavata Purana

Diptych with Twelve Apostles & St. Paul

A prince riding a composite elephant

Vivaca Ragaputra, a Leaf from Ragamala Series

Couple Playing Chaupar on a Terrace