Cleveland Museum of Art
Royal lovers watching rain clouds: The month of Bhadon, from a Barahmasa
- Date
- c. 1790
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Barahmasa means Twelve Months, and this painting came from a series that depicts scenes associated with each month of the Hindu calendar. Bhadon corresponds to a month straddling August and September. It is the middle of the monsoon season when rivers are swollen and continual rainstorms prevent travel and warfare. For this reason, men remain at home, and Bhadon is famed as a month for lovemaking. The oval format became popular after the 1760s with the expansion of British presence in India.
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