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Maru Ragini, from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies)

1650–80

Medium: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: Painting: 26 x 17.6 cm (10 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber or Southwestern India, Deccan
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: Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

About this work

A Rajput warrior holding a spear, with piercing dagger (katar) and sword attached to his belt, stands alone with his camel in a landscape. They have arrived at the banks of a stream, verdant in contrast to the intense hot yellow of the ground behind them. The musical mode associated with this painting is based on folk melodies of Rajasthan, where local stories feature a hero with a camel mount.