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Woman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala
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About this work
The lone woman wears an orange skirt under a sheer brown sari with gold patterns. She offers some grass to one of four deer that approach her with enthusiasm. She holds a blue and gold vina and faces to the viewer’s left. A poetic verse in Sanskrit describing Ragini Todi is inscribed within the upper yellow border.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWoman Feeding Deer: Todi Ragini, from a Ragamala, c. 1610. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber. Gum tempera and gold on paper; miniature: 21.6 x 19.4 cm (8 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.167
