The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Ascetic Princess with Snakes in a Wilderness: Asavari Ragini, from a Ragamala
c. 1650
Page: 25.8 x 18.2 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.); Miniature: 19.7 x 12.7 cm (7 3/4 x 5 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
This painting once belonged to the filmmaker James Ivory (American, b. 1928).Description
According to a theme explored in various examples of Indian poetry and literature, a princess has fled her royal life to live alone on an island in the forest. She has skillfully made a skirt and hut of leaves and vines. Suffering deprivation and practicing yogic disciplines, she has achieved the power to peacefully commune with the water snakes, who are mystically drawn to her.- Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2019-April 5, 2020).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.190