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Vilaval Ragini  

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Source Title

Vilaval Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

City/Place

Sirohi

Country/Region

India, Rajasthan

Source date

ca. 1680

Dimensions

22.2 x 16.2 cm

Categories

disciplines/culture/religion/Hinduism, disciplines/culture/religion/Mughal, materials/ink, materials/paint/water color, materials/paper, materials/paper/indian, object types/painting/ragamala, themes/divinity/ies/god/goddess/Planets/Sun/Surya, themes/planet(s)/sun, themes/time/day, colors/black, colors/blue, colors/cream, colors/green, colors/ocher, colors/olive, colors/orange, colors/pink, colors/white, colors/yellow

Current Location

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

Provenance

donated to MMA (1985)

 

Cynthia Hazen Polsky, New York, USA (until 1985)

Reference

1985.398.11

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37854

Description

"The Vilaval ragini is to be performed in the morning, as suggested by the sun rising in a dark sky. In poetry, this raga is described as a lady preparing to meet her lover, and here she is shown looking in a mirror and fixing her earrings. The pavilion is represented without depth and great emphasis is given to surface patterning. The orange borders and the red and green color fields in the architectural frame link the work to an exquisite ragamala series attributed to the Sirohi court. The overall composition may be compared to late seventeenth-century Malwa court styles, with which the artist of this series likely had contact." 

Extracted text

Inscribed above in Devanagari: ka[?]; and velaval ragani 14

Bibliography

Andrew Topsfield, ed. In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India. Exh. cat. London: Asia Society Museum, 2004, pp. 324–25, cat. no.143.

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Marker lat / long: 24.878962, 72.854814 (WGS84)

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