Cleveland Museum of Art
Madhava plays his vina before five women drawing water from a well, folio 3 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala
- Date
- c. 1720
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 314219
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
One morning, Madhava sits beneath a tree to play his vina (stringed instrument). At this hour, women come to a well to draw water. Time unfolds across the figures of the five women. Two pull their full water pots from the well. One stops abruptly, hearing his musical strains. Two have become so entranced that they drop and break their pots in surprise and listen with delight. The vina is an Indian stringed instrument with gourd attached on each end as a resonator.
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- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- 1973–2018: Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection | 2018–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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