Cleveland Museum of Art
The Heroine Who is Faithfully Loved: Madhya Svadhinapatika Nayika, from a Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta
- Date
- c. 1710
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 143304
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The heroine sits in front of the elongated red cushion, gesturing to her companion in conversation. She is trying to decide if she should agree to submit to her husband or continue to be coy. A verse from a Sanskrit poem by Bhanudatta Misra, who lived during the late 1400s to early 1500s in northeastern India, has been quoted on the back of the painting. The verse has been written both in Sanskrit using the Takri script of the Pahari region and in a local vernacular translation. The man at right nervously grasps his scarf as he respectfully approaches his lover and her companion.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee
- Provenance
- ?–1967: Sherman Emory Lee [1918–2008] and Ruth Alida Ward Lee [1917–2011], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1967–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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