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The daughter-in-law returns from her misadventure, feigning insanity, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night

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

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An arm visible beneath the central chamber indicates that a smaller figure has been overpainted.

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