Lovers on a Terrace: Ramakali Ragini of Hindol, from a Bundi Ragamala (c. 1610): Art, History and Details

Lovers on a Terrace: Ramakali Ragini of Hindol, from a Bundi Ragamala (c. 1610) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Sitting on a floral carpet outside a bedchamber, a noble dressed in Mughal apparel including Jahangir-period turban and decorated sash is trying to assuage his displeased consort. The lady turns her face away from the man, showing that his appeals have been ignored. The black sky indicates that their quarrel takes place in the middle of the night.

Object facts

• Title: Lovers on a Terrace: Ramakali Ragini of Hindol, from a Bundi Ragamala
• Date: c. 1610
• Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi
• Type: Painting
• Technique: gum tempera and gold on paper
• Dimensions: Page: 21.3 x 12.4 cm (8 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 2018.156

A detail from the museum

The red canopy with a yellow border above them is to be used as a fan.

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

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