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Lalita Ragini
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 19.5 x 15 cm (7 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2384
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsReverse: In Devanagari: "A tiger hero, swaggering and truculent, seeming to be the slave of Love, Who can tell when he returns, roaring like an elephant?". Also, an inscription in Persian or Urdu.
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)