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Gaudi Ragini

c. 1700–1725

India, Rajasthan, probably Jaipur, 18th century

Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Image: 25.5 x 19 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Overall: 30.7 x 23.8 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection 1968.109
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Adept in the arts of love, according to the verse, a sixteen-year-old girl “tarries in the garden, confused of mind,” holding flowers from the wishing tree, no companion with her. Four black bucks seem to have emerged from the dense woods, attracted to her, while monkeys leer at her from above. The shining white architecture atop sherbet-hued walls and the tall peaked hill are characteristic of paintings from the Rajput kingdom of Amber, which would later be renamed Jaipur. The music of Gauri Ragini is intended to be enjoyed during the winter months.
A vertically oriented tempera painting depicts a light-skinned woman in a yellow dress holding beads on a central green hill. To our left stand three gray antelopes; to our right, another antelope and a tan deer. Above, a monkey sits on a wall beside a white domed building. Yellow text fills the top panel. Pink lotus flowers line a pond along the lower edge, all framed within a thick red border.

Gaudi Ragini

c. 1700–1725

India, Rajasthan, probably Jaipur, 18th century

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