Cleveland Museum of Art
Sita asks Rama to fetch the golden deer, from the “Shangri” Ramayana
- Date
- c. 1700–1725
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, Himachal Pradesh
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 677517
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Sita exclaims to Rama, “What an exquisite deer! He has stolen my heart away. Please catch him for me, my great-armed husband. He shall be our plaything. . . . Never before have we seen an animal such as this. His body sparkles with different colors and is speckled with chips of precious stones; he illuminates the entire forest, for with his golden hide and horns of precious gems, he shows all the brilliance of the morning sun, all the luster of the starry heavens.” Lakshmana is suspicious and warns against having anything to do with the enchanting deer. The spots on the golden deer show that it shimmers with multiple colors.
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- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Provenance
- ?–2015: Swiss collection, sold in London to Francesca Galloway | 2015–2025: (Francesca Galloway, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 2025–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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