Unknown artist, Kaccheli Ragini, from a Ragamala
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art · National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →

Unknown artist

Kaccheli Ragini, from a Ragamala

ca. 1710

Current Collection

National Museum of Asian Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
16.2 × 15.5 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-127695

With its wide-eyed heroine seated beneath undulating creepers, head-butting rams, and brooding clouds, the painting has a wild energy. Its farouche quality is heightened by its enigmatic subject: a woman sitting outside a shrine with her hand on the rump of a ram butting another ram.

Provenance

Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

Registry history

  • ca. 1710 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art

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