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Madhava Plays his Vina before Five Women Drawing Water from a Well, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

Madhava Plays his Vina before Five Women Drawing Water from a Well, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala

c. 1720
gum tempera and gold on paper
Image: 19.1 x 28.6 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.); Page: 21.7 x 30.9 cm (8 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.93
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The vina is an Indian stringed instrument with gourd attached on each end as a resonator.

Description

Madhava sits under a tree playing his vina. As two women draw water from the well in earthen pots, another woman on her way from the well has turned around to hear Madhava’s music. Two women on the right have dropped and broken their pots.
  • ?-2018
    Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2018-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.93