id:			170864
accession number:	2013.340
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updated:		2022-10-29 17:34:42.676000

Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series, c. 1755. Eastern India, Bengal, Murshidabad, 18th century. Opaque watercolor with gold on paper; 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.). 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 2013.340

title:				Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala Series
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creation date:			c. 1755
creation date earliest:		1750
creation date latest:		1760
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creditline:			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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culture:	Eastern India, Bengal, Murshidabad, 18th century
technique:	opaque watercolor with gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Painting
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measurements: 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.)
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	inscription:	identified at top in gold: ragini todi
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245): April 28, 2015 - November 2, 2015.<br><br>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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PROVENANCE

	Collection of Sri Ram Gopal Vijavarghia (artist, poet, and author, (1905-2003)
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	December 18, 1968 - Christie's, London, Manuscripts, Drawings and Oriental Miniatures, (lot 94]
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wall description: 
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, ragini todi, in Arabic script, which suggests that this ragamala series was made for a Muslim patron. 
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