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Kakubha Ragini


Gauri Ragini
Indian, Deccani
18th century
Object Place: possibly Hyderabad, Deccan, India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 35.8 x 27.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2910
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsOn reverse, in English "no. 22."

Pal: "Kakubha is a handsome young woman, suffering lovesickness, leaving her fine palace she enters the forest, ...
Again and again she arouses the peacock's scream, forgetting soul and body in a trance upon her lord."
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)