A Heroine and Her Paramour: Malavi Ragini, from a Ragamala (c. 1695): Art, History and Details
A Heroine and Her Paramour: Malavi Ragini, from a Ragamala at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1695, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
A Heroine and Her Paramour: Malavi Ragini, from a Ragamala (c. 1695) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The painting is divided into two registers. The top register depicts a royal lady being attended by maidservants outside a bed chamber. The lower register depicts a noble walking with his consort, holding her tight and offering her a garland. The surrounding women dance and play music with an exuberance echoed in the vegetation.
Object facts
- Title: A Heroine and Her Paramour: Malavi Ragini, from a Ragamala
- Date: c. 1695
- Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar
- Type: Painting
- Technique: gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Page: 37.5 x 29.2 cm (14 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Indian Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 2018.139
A detail from the museum
The sun has a human face and gazes on the scene.
Collection credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Branfoot, Crispin, ed. Portraiture in South Asia Since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History. London; New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2018.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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