# Portrait of a Woman

- Date: c 1675–1700
- Medium: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 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.)
- Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bikaner
- Credit line: Gift of Flora D. Glass and Elwood G. Glass Jr.
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.1110)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1987.1110/1987.1110_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

