Escapade at Night:

An oval Rajput painting set at night shows a multi-storied palace on the left, where a woman lies sleeping on a balcony while a man climbs a long rope toward her. Below, attendants sit at the palace door, and at right a saddled horse and grazing cattle stand among trees under a dark, cloudy sky.

Look closer: A small figure is visible in the upper window of the palace near the rope's top, and cattle rest in the distant field.

Artist

Chokha

Date

ca. 1800–10

Medium

Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 3075 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2006