The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night, Lalu — The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night, c. 1560

Lalu

Active mid-1500s · South Asian painting · 4 works

Lalu, active in the mid-1500s, is known almost only from the Tales of a Parrot painted for Akbar about 1560. Several of its pages at the Cleveland Museum of Art carry his name; just one other work is attributed to him. His pages follow tales of the eighth to tenth nights, among them a magic wooden parrot that changes hands.

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4 works · c. 1560

The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Nightc. 1560
The parrot brings a fruit from the Tree of Life to the king of Syria, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Nightc. 1560
The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Nightc. 1560
The wife of the son of the vizier brings the magic wooden parrot to her lover, the monk, who exchanges it for the replica, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Nightc. 1560

Original museum reproductions, with source records on every artwork page.

Artist information: Cleveland Museum of Art (The parrot brings a fruit from the Tree of Life to the king of Syria, from a Tuti-nama, The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama, The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, from a Tuti-nama, The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama).

Public-domain art. An imagined museum; no museum affiliation.