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Ravana in conference with the Raksasa captain; Raksasa Army awaits

Attributed to: Manaku (Indian, about 1700–1760)
Indian, Pahari
about 1725
Object Place: Guler, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 58.5 x 84 cm (23 1/16 x 33 1/16 in.)
Framed: 84.1 x 104.5 cm (33 1/8 x 41 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2749
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceCollection Raja Raghunath Singh of Guler (b. 1884 - d. 1920) [1]; before 1916, purchased in Amritsar, 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)

Notes:
[1] W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, 1973, vol. 1, page 146.