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Malkausa Raga
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 19.5 x 14.6 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2373
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsObverse: "The devoted wife went into the forest to bring her darling home; Every moment that passed was like an aeon, whose love was killing her." (Note: this may be a related poem, not on reverse of painting - CHECK).
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)