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Unknown

1605–06 · Ink and opaque watercolor on paper · Asian Art

Ragamala texts describe the woman in this scene as “a lady whose gesture is one of languor and silence, whose eyes are restless from lack of sleep, who is exhausted by the effort of love-making.” Here, the artist shows a woman sitting with arms upraised in longing, looking back at an empty bed in an attempt to translate the mood of the text and the related musical passage into a pictorial representation.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1605–06

Medium

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Culture

India (Rajasthan, Bikaner)

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1987