id: 314368 accession number: 2018.117 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.117 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:59.750000 Enthroned Rama and Sita receive homage from their monkey and bear Allies, from the Yuddha Kanda (Book of the War) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey), c. 1765. Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Nurpur. Gum tempera and gold on paper; overall: 40.7 x 28.9 cm (16 x 11 3/8 in.); painting: 23.7 x 14.9 cm (9 5/16 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.117 title: Enthroned Rama and Sita receive homage from their monkey and bear Allies, from the Yuddha Kanda (Book of the War) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1765 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1775 current location: creditline: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Nurpur technique: gum tempera and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 40.7 x 28.9 cm (16 x 11 3/8 in.); Painting: 23.7 x 14.9 cm (9 5/16 x 5 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: [[verso, upper center, in English, four lines]] Lord Rama + with his wife Sitā sitting his throne after coming back from (forest) + (forest) king monkey + (here) showing his (sumptuary) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Indian Gallery 242 Rotation opening date: 2018-09-10T04:00:00 Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 10, 2018-April 7, 2019). title: Imagining Rama's Journey (Indian Painting rotation) opening date: 2023-03-10T05:00:00 Imagining Rama's Journey (Indian Painting rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-September 17, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Christie’s, London, England, lot 119, sold to Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim) date: 1979 footnotes: citations: Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection date: 1979–2018 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2018– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Diane de Selliers, ed., Rāmāyaṇa. Volume VII. Paris, 2011. page number: Reproduced: p. 91. url: "New in the Galleries: Newly acquired Indian paintings.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 6 (November/December 2018): Back cover. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.117/2018.117_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.117/2018.117_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.117/2018.117_full.tif