Illustration to a ragamala series: Megha ragini
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, Jaipur, mid 18th century
The princess prepares herself for the tryst with her lover as she applies perfume and precious jewels staring into the mirror held by an attendant, musicians and other attendants surround her in a small chamber within a palace complex, a pair of cockerels in a mating dance in the lower right corner.
image: 9 ¾ x 6 ¾ in. (24.7 x 16.9 cm), folio: 11 ½ x 8 ½ in. (29 x 21.5 cm)
The princess prepares herself for the tryst with her lover as she applies perfume and precious jewels staring into the mirror held by an attendant, musicians and other attendants surround her in a small chamber within a palace complex, a pair of cockerels in a mating dance in the lower right corner.
image: 9 ¾ x 6 ¾ in. (24.7 x 16.9 cm), folio: 11 ½ x 8 ½ in. (29 x 21.5 cm)
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Footnotes
- Compare with another page form this series in Anna Dallapiccola, Ragamala, Exhibition catalogue of Galerie Marco Polo, March, 1977, no. 34 and another in the Cleveland Museum of Art, see Linda York Leach, Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings, Cleveland, 1986, no. 63.
Provenance:
Private Collection
Acquired from Doris Wiener in the 1980s
Category: Asian Art / Southeast Asian, Indian and Himalayan Art
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