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Bangala Ragini
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 19.7 x 14.6 cm (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2383
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsOn reverse: "With a view to enthrall her husband, a great and noble lord, the woman repeats the Sama mantra, wearing the aspect of a sage"
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)