id:			314378
accession number:	2018.119
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.119
updated:		2025-06-20 11:29:58.142000

Rama’s brothers Bharata and Shatrughna set out from Ayodhya to find Rama and Lakshmana in the forest to inform them of the death of their father Dasharatha, from Chapter 77 of the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey), c. 1775–80. Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Kangra. Gum tempera and gold on paper; overall: 24.9 x 35.7 cm (9 13/16 x 14 1/16 in.); painting: 20.5 x 31.5 cm (8 1/16 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.119

title:				Rama’s brothers Bharata and Shatrughna set out from Ayodhya to find Rama and Lakshmana in the forest to inform them of the death of their father Dasharatha, from Chapter 77 of the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)
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creation date:			c. 1775–80
creation date earliest:		1775
creation date latest:		1780
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creditline:			Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Kangra
technique:	Gum tempera and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 24.9 x 35.7 cm (9 13/16 x 14 1/16 in.); Painting: 20.5 x 31.5 cm (8 1/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
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	inscription:	[[verso, upper border]] NRE
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	inscription:	[[verso, bottom right]] /40
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Indian Gallery 242 Rotation
	opening date:   2018-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>Indian Gallery 242 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 10, 2018-April 7, 2019).

	title:		Imagining Rama’s Journey
	opening date:   2023-03-09T05:00:00
	<i>Imagining Rama’s Journey</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-September 17, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Chughtai, sold to the Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection)
	date: ?–2008
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	Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection
	date: 2008–2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Vālmīki, Madeleine Biardeau, Marie-Claude Porcher, and Amina Okada. <em>Rāmāyaṇa</em>. Volume II. Paris: Diane de Selliers Éditeur, 2011.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 179
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	Mace, Sonya Rhie. “Acquisitions 2018: Indian and Southeast Asian Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 26–27.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 27; Mentioned: pp. 26, 27
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