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The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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The stain above the painting is from the acidic green pigment used to paint a tree on the reverse.

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