Unknown Artist
- Title
- Gujari Ragini
- Place of origin
-
Deccan →
India
- Cultural origin
- North Deccan
- Year
- circa 1750
- Media categories
- Miniature, Painting, Watercolour
- Materials used
- opaque watercolour (gouache) on paper
- Dimensions
-
25.5 x 17.9cm; 33.0 x 25.5cm approx. (leaf)
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Nigel and Mrs Norma Hawkins 2010. Donated through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program.
- Accession number
- 34.2010
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This is a ragamala painting of the type that often features women taking pleasure in quiet pastimes in an effort to hold the loneliness felt by absent lovers at bay. In this work a woman is seated outside in a courtyard. She holds a musical instrument and is attended by a servant. The woman appears to call the attention of a bird in the tree, possibly in an attempt to send her lover a message.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, September 2011
- Exhibition history (1)
-
One hundred flowers (2011), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Sep 2011–15 Jan 2012.
