A Royal Woman in a Pavilion: Desavarari Ragini of Dipak, from a Ragamala
1695
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1695
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
A Royal Woman in a Pavilion: Desavarari Ragini of Dipak, from a Ragamala is a 1695 unspecified by Unknown, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A woman in a jewel-toned sari sits under a canopy, while attendants fan her and musicians play below. The scene spills across two levels: a terrace above, a lotus pool and pavilion below. This painting comes from a *Ragamala*—a set of pictures that pair Indian music modes with moods and stories. Each mode, or *raga*, had its own time of day, season, and emotion. The artist never signed the work, so we don’t know their name. To see more paintings like this, look up the subject rajput kingdom of mewar.
A sumptuous palace setting depicts the women’s quarters. In the upper register a woman approaches a bed made under a canopy on a terrace overlooking a lotus pool in the middle of which is a pleasure pavilion. An attendant holds a peacock tail feather whisk to indicate the royal status of the woman in the center; two musicians play drum and cymbals in the lower right.
“Dipak” means lamp; one attendant holds a lamp; another is on a golden stand.
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