id: 133057 accession number: 1955.48 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.48 updated: 2023-05-27 11:01:43.742000 Ladies Shooting from a Pavilion, c. 1810. India, Rajasthan, Kota school, 19th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; sheet: 34.3 x 27.3 cm (13 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.); sheet with border: 38.1 x 31.1 cm (15 x 12 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.48 title: Ladies Shooting from a Pavilion title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1810 creation date earliest: 1805 creation date latest: 1815 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Rajasthan, Kota school, 19th century technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 34.3 x 27.3 cm (13 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.); Sheet with border: 38.1 x 31.1 cm (15 x 12 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Rajput Painting opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Rajput Painting. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 22, 1961). title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-15T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981). title: Gods, Kings and Tigers: The Art of Kotah opening date: 1997-08-30T00:00:00 Gods, Kings and Tigers: The Art of Kotah. The Asia Society Museum (April 24-July 27, 1997); HUAM, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA (August 30-November 2, 1997); Museum Rietberg, Zürich (November 23, 1997-February 22, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Rajput Painting. Asia House, New York, NY (December 3, 1960-January 22, 1961). * Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-August 18, 2004). * Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 242B). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 6-November 7, 2016). --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1955 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1955- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The anonymous master who painted this work reveled in detailed depictions of animals in nature. A pair of magnificent lions have come to drink at a pond, and the male turns back, sensing that something has alerted the deer. Three palace women from the veranda of a lodge aim muskets in their direction. White monkeys with black faces seem agitated and flee the roof for the mango tree, and a small mammal called a civet, who has just caught a bird, slinks away into the rushes. On the far banks of the pond is a shrine to the Hindu god Shiva, denoted by a linga, an abstract phallic sculpture on a pedestal, in front of which is an image of his mount, the bull. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 771 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n138 Lee, Sherman E. and George Montgomery. Rajput Painting; with an introductory essay and catalogue notes. New York: Asia House, 1960. page number: Reproduced: pp. 46-47; plate 40 url: Coates, Robert M.. "The Art Galleries Here and There." The New Yorker (December 31, 1960): 45-47. page number: Mentioned: p. 45 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 240 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n264 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 240 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n264 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 307 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n327 Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 10; Mentioned: p. 11, 60 url: Desai, Vishakha N., B. N. Goswamy, and Ainslie Thomas Embree. Life at Court: Art for India's Rulers, 16th-19th Centuries. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1985. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 86-87, cat. no. 69 and detail url: Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 77, pp. 197-203 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.48/1955.48_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.48/1955.48_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.48/1955.48_full.tif