"Princess with Attendants Picnicking in the Open Air", Folio from the Davis Album
Not on view
A princess is entertained by her companions with wine or sherbet, music and a green parrot. The delicately rendered figures are seated outdoors by a waterfall which emerges from a tall hillside of sweeping curves. Images of feminine gatherings first became popular subjects in Mughal albums of the second quarter of the seventeenth century. However, this painting is one of a group that were produced in the eighteenth century, seemingly inspired by the earlier Jahangiri style.
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