MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Jaikishen - Ragini Jaijavanti - Walters W884.jpg (912x1281) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Jaikishen - Ragini Jaijavanti - Walters W884.jpg According to the inscription on the top the verse was composed by Govinda Other folios from this series are in the Binney Collection San Diego Museum of Art and the Fogg Art Museum where a colophon appears on the representation of Asavari see Ebeling 1973 p 212 It gives the artist's name as Jaikishen of Malpura and the patron's name as Raiji Motiram In the picture we see a couple in a garden outside a pavilion with an empty bed The moon in the sky indicates that it is night Judging from the attitudes of the lovers perhaps the gentleman is about to depart Although no other published representation of this scene is known it resembles a late 19th century mural in the Motimahal at Gwalior described briefly by Ebeling ibid p 229 as a couple absorbed in music Although Jaikishen has used a great deal of architecture recording the fine details accurately the action takes place in flat planes; the colors are applied in bright rectangular patches and the compositions are contained by floral borders 1756 pigments paper cm 33 22 2 accession number W 884 40654 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2001 place of origin Malpura Rajasthan India Walters Art Museum license Mughal miniatures in the Walters Art Museum Jaikishen Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Ragamala | ||||
