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A Royal Woman in a Pavilion: Desavarari Ragini of Dipak, from a Ragamala
c. 1695
- Medium
- gum tempera, ink, silver, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Page: 38.1 x 28.9 cm (15 x 11 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
A sumptuous palace setting depicts the women’s quarters. In the upper register a woman approaches a bed made under a canopy on a terrace overlooking a lotus pool in the middle of which is a pleasure pavilion. An attendant holds a peacock tail feather whisk to indicate the royal status of the woman in the center; two musicians play drum and cymbals in the lower right.
