Gaudi Ragini
Unknown Artist
c. 1700–1725
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Dimensions
30.7 × 23.8 cm · image: 25.5 × 19 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection
Accession Number
1968.109
About this artwork
Adept in the arts of love, according to the verse, a sixteen-year-old girl “tarries in the garden, confused of mind,” holding flowers from the wishing tree, no companion with her. Four black bucks seem to have emerged from the dense woods, attracted to her, while monkeys leer at her from above. The shining white architecture atop sherbet-hued walls and the tall peaked hill are characteristic of paintings from the Rajput kingdom of Amber, which would later be renamed Jaipur. The music of Gauri Ra...