Cleveland Museum of Art

A Woman Plucks Leaves While Awaiting Her Lover: Gunakali Ragini of Malkos, from the “Chawand Ragamala”

Date: 1605
Medium: gum tempera and ink on paper
Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar, Chawand
Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 314441

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On a terrace outside an open bedchamber, a dark-skinned woman wearing a skirt of peacock feathers plucks leaves from a tree and has filled her basket with flowers. She has made garlands and hung them on the trees, probably in accordance with a vow made in the ardent hope of bringing back her overdue lover. In accordance with the verse, two peacocks stand perched on the roof. She has lit a six-flame lamp at the foot of the tree in her vigil.

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Credit line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance: ?–2018: Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2018–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH