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Portrait of a Woman
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The royal court at Bikaner included Muslim women. This royal woman wears a white cloak covered with a repeating gilded leaf pattern and a screen sewn in at the forehead. When the cloak is pulled over her face for added modesty, she looks out through the screen.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of a Woman, c 1675–1700. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bikaner. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; image: 16.2 x 8.3 cm (6 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.); paper: 41.6 x 27 cm (16 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Flora D. Glass and Elwood G. Glass Jr., 1987.1110
