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Vibhasa Ragini
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 19.9 × 14.6 cm (7 13/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2382
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsObverse: at top, title in Devanagari, now effaced. Reverse: in Devanagari: "The whole night passed away in love's delights and enjoyment of amorous dalliance. Alone on the bed, Bibhasa sleeps." Also inscriptions in Persian.
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)