Woman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala (c. 1610): Art, History and Details

Woman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, from a 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:

The lone woman wears an orange skirt under a sheer brown sari with gold patterns. She offers some grass to one of four deer that approach her with enthusiasm. She holds a blue and gold vina and faces to the viewer’s left. A poetic verse in Sanskrit describing Ragini Todi is inscribed within the upper yellow border.

Object facts

• Title: Woman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala
• Date: c. 1610
• Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber
• Type: Painting
• Technique: gum tempera and gold on paper
• Dimensions: Miniature: 21.6 x 19.4 cm (8 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 2018.167

A detail from the museum

Melodies played in the musical mode or key called Todi are performed between 9 AM and 12 PM.

Collection credit

Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

View the collection record

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