id:			314125
accession number:	2018.87
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.87
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:18.112000

Women Worshipping a Shiva Linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol, from a Chamba Ragamala, c. 1700. Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Chamba. Gum tempera and gold on paper; miniature: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.87

title:				Women Worshipping a Shiva Linga: Devagandhari Ragini of Hindol, from a Chamba Ragamala
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creation date:			c. 1700
creation date earliest:		1690
creation date latest:		1710
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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, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Chamba
technique:	gum tempera and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Miniature: 21 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Marjorie Buckle, Hong Kong, sold to Ralph Benkaim)
	date: ?–June 1973
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	Ralph Benkaim [1914–2001], Beverly Hills, CA, by descent to his wife Catherine Glynn Benkaim
	date: June 1973–2001
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	Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2001–2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018–
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fun fact:
The iconography of Devagandhari is consistent in several Ragamala series from Chamba

digital description:
Removed from any temple setting, the focus of the scene is on the intensity of the women’s devotions to the Hindu god Shiva in his abstract form of a linga. The figure on the right tosses flower petals on the linga and offers incense in a handheld censer. Her taller companion wearing a yellow blouse holds two lotus flowers in her hands cupped in devotion as she bows reverently.

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