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Dhanasri Ragini
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 19.4 x 14.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2380
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsObverse: at top, title in Devanagari, now effaced. Reverse: in Devanagari: "All the tale she tells her sakhi, Dhanasri is full of woe. The beauty of her body is wasted all away, she displays the condition of ‘love of separation.'." Also, Persian inscriptions.
Provenance1913, purchased in Delhi, 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 to the MFA by Denman Waldo Ross. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)