
The peafowl, I discovered while in India, is the most beloved of their beautiful birds. We saw dozens of them (peacocks are males, peahens are females) in the wild… roosting in the trees, running around in the brush. Once we saw a male ‘dancing’ with his tail feathers fanned out… and were told that is ‘very lucky.’

So when I was introduced to the Indian Miniature paintings, the first I looked for was artwork of peacocks. This painting is only 4×6 inches… the paints are vegetable based, similar to tempera. The detail they put into these miniatures is incredible.

This piece of art was from a book, there is script on the back of the illustration, all hand painted text. We bought one more, which I’ll post in a couple days!