The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection

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Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series

c. 1755

Medium: Gum tempera and gold on paper
Dimensions: Page: 28.6 x 19 cm (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.); Miniature: 23.5 x 15.3 cm (9 1/4 x 6 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: Indian Art - Mughal
Origin: Eastern India, Bengal, Murshidabad, 18th century
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection

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Provenance

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Provenance event

Collection of Sri Ram Gopal Vijavarghia (artist, poet, and author, (1905-2003)

Provenance event

December 18, 1968 - Christie's, London, Manuscripts, Drawings and Oriental Miniatures, (lot 94]

Source provenance text

Collection of Sri Ram Gopal Vijavarghia (artist, poet, and author, (1905-2003) December 18, 1968 - Christie's, London, Manuscripts, Drawings and Oriental Miniatures, (lot 94]

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Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245): April 28, 2015 - November 2, 2015. The Cleveland Museum of Art (7/31/2016-10/23/2016); Art and Stories from Mughal India, cat. 81, p. 255.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Ragamala paintings were recognized as being associated with a season and time of day. Evoking a late morning in spring, here a young woman beguiles deer from the woodlands with her music to prevent them from destroying the crops in the field. The saturated hues and romantic idealization of the scene continue idioms begun in the Mughal court that were disseminated to regional centers of patronage such as Murshidabad. The inscription at the top of this page identifies the name, <em>ragini todi</em>, in Arabic script, which suggests that this ragamala series was made for a Muslim patron.

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