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The Bride with Mourners Carrying the Bridegroom's Coffin
1068 AH/AD 1657 (Safavid; Mughal)
This folio from Walters manuscript W.649 depicts a scene from Suz va gudaz. Overcome with grief, the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (or self immolation).
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Iran (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9 1/4 x W: 5 11/16 in. (23.5 x 14.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.649.14A
