An illustration from a ragamala series: Kamod ragini
Jaipur, circa 1750gouache and gold on paper
281 x 200 mm.注脚Provenance
Claude Boisgirard, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 20 March 1996.
Private German Collection.

Published
Ludwig Habighorst, Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Koblenz 2011, p. 127, fig. 97.

Exhibited
Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Völkerkunde-Museum, Hamburg, 17 March-27 October 2013.

Adorned with the lotus petals from the river, the lingam radiates before the maiden and her attendants. In contrast to the scene's formality and architectural precision, a monkey leaps between trees below a dynamic stormy sky. Three pages from this ragamala series are in the San Diego Museum of Art (1990.8.851, 1990.8.855 & 1990.8.856). Another page is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.71.1.42).