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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION In this brilliantly colored and powerful For related works see K. Ebeling, Ragamala
Seventeenth Century painting a solitary nayika Painting, Basel, 1973 pp. 60-61 cat. C 18 and P.
TODI RAGINI: A FOLIO FROM A (heroine) is out walking alone near a lotus- lled Pal, Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts
RAGAMALA SERIES pond - holding a vina (stringed instrument) in one Boston, Boston, cover photo and p.72 cat. 73.
India, Northern Deccan, hand, she o ers tufts of grass to a group of three $ 6,000-8,000
Aurangabad, circa 1670’s deer. The two does and gray-buck seem tamed
and mesmerized by her presence. Todi Ragini - 89
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper perhaps a metaphor for loneliness:
image: 9¼ by 6¼ in. (22.8 by 15.2 cm)
folio: 11½ by 8¾ in. (27.9 by 20.3 cm) “Divided from her darling
and most unhappy in love
PROVENANCE like a nun renouncing the world
Todi abides in the grove and
Kumar Sangram Singh of Nawalgarh charms the hearts of the does.”
Private collection
Acquired 1990’s
