Untitled

Unknown

ca. 1700–1710 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver on paper · Asian Art

This painting, which is identified as the Sanveri Ragini by the inscription on the upper border, depicts a courtly woman seated on a silver throne in a wooded landscape. The falcon perched on her left hand is an allusion to a bird’s song. The ragamala genre in the Pahari Hill region of Himachal Pradesh diverged from that in Rajasthan, with variant iconographic subjects and different compositional solutions, as evidenced in this work’s square format and intense, flat ground color.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1700–1710

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver on paper

Culture

India (Himachal Pradesh, possibly Basohli or Nurpur)

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002