Varari Ragini
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Varari Ragini is a 1800 paint by Unknown, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a lady fanning a prince with a yak-tail fly-whisk. The lady and prince are in a quiet scene, with the lady's action the main focus. This painting is part of a series called a ragamala, which illustrates musical modes through human activities. This style is similar to what you'd see if you looked up the technique of impasto.
This painting depicts *Varari Ragini*, a ragamala illustration of a musical mode, showing a scene in which a woman uses a chauri (yak-tail fly-whisk) to fan a seated prince within a garden setting, where a peacock is visible among plantains. Part of a ragamala series blending multiple stylistic influences, the work originates from a late 16th-century Ahmednagar prototype but was likely executed or modified in the 17th century, with facial details repainted in the 19th century. Rendered in opaque watercolour on paper, it belongs to a puzzling group of Deccani paintings that reinterpret earlier…
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