# A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto)

- Date: c. 1760
- Medium: Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Page: 27.7 x 19.6 cm (10 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.); Page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Culture: India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century
- Credit line: Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.342.a)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2013.342.a/2013.342.a_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Images of pleasure and play abound in Mughal paintings of the latter half of the 1700s. Under a full moon reflected off a river and by the light of candles, a prince celebrates the spring festival of Holi with a group of palace women. Holi festivities include the boisterous tradition of smearing one another with colored powders—shown heaped on dishes—or shooting colored liquid using plunger guns.