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A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder

c. 1740

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi

Medium
gum tempera and gold on paper
Measurements
Page: 33.7 x 24.8 cm (13 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Miniature: 27.3 x 17.5 cm (10 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.162
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Both sinners have turbans unraveling.

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Themes of punishments of hell were popular in Rajasthani ateliers, and several courts commissioned paintings depicting infernal cruelty. The dark-skinned punisher pulls a royal figure from his terrace with chains and is about to smite him with his baton. A ferocious tiger can be seen ripping another man with his claws.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and gold painting depicts a man with dark skin tone pulling a man with light skin tone from a white pavilion with a chain. On our right, the man with dark skin tone floats in a green tunic. Below, a yellow and black striped tiger mauls another man with light skin tone on the grass. The scene is framed by a red border with black script across the top margin.

A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder

c. 1740

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi

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