Gunakali Ragini

Cleveland Museum of Art

Gunakali Ragini

Date
c. 1750
Medium
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Culture
Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Jaipur
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
131671

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A princess sits on a throne under a canopy. Her companion holds the royal fly whisk above her head. According to the verse at the top, she absentmindedly plucks flowers as she daydreams about lovemaking. Below, a woman holds an instrument, possibly referring to the musical compositions that were played for the viewers in accordance with the scene and mood of the verse. The two women kneel on a carpet, which the artist has tilted up to a vertical plane, so its pattern of stylized water lilies on a bold orange ground surrounded by a green border with undulating flowering vines can be fully seen. Sets of paintings by royal court artists, such as the Ragamala series from which this page came, were made for sale, rather than for the private collection of the king.

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Credit line
Edward L. Whittemore Fund
Provenance
?–1952: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1952–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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