Gauri Ragini, folio from a <em>Ragamala</em>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1625-1630
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Marwar school
label: Description
content: Surrounded by four trees and six peacocks, a lady, wearing an orange jama, stands beside a lotus filled pond. She holds two flower staffs.
label: Inscriptions
content: Recto: (top in yellow panel), in devnagari : Raga Gau Ragini
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso: (top left) devanagari numerals 120; Underneath is another notation which cannot be deciphered, perhaps MO 221?
label: Inscriptions
content: (top right) devanagari ?
label: Inscriptions
content: (top right) devanagari ?
label: Provenance
content: To 1947
label: Provenance
content: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1947 to 1974
label: Provenance
content: Rama Coomaraswamy (1929-2006), Greenwich, Connecticut, by gift or inheritance after his father, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s death in 1947 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1974 to 2001
label: Provenance
content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), Beverly Hills, California, purchased from Rama Coomaraswamy, Greenwich, Connecticut [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 2001 to 2018
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001
label: Provenance
content: From 2018
label: Provenance
content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Rama Coomaraswamy was the son of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, an important figure in the field of Indian and Sri Lankan art history. Coomaraswamy was largely responsible for providing the conceptual structures through which South Asian art became studied and valued in India and in the west. Because A.K. Coomaraswamy spent the second half of his life in the U.S., it is highly unlikely that any art from his personal collection would have a contested provenance.
label: Provenance
content: [2] According to information from Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Collection
content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947)
place: label: Origin
content: Marwar, Rajasthan state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: peacock
label: Topic
content: tree
label: Topic
content: lotus
label: Topic
content: woman
label: Topic
content: ragamala
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
label: Topic
content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
setName: label: See more items in
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: S2018.1.49
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 23.5 × 19 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in)