Lakshmana at the hermitage, folio from a <em>Ramayana</em>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1690-1710
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Kulu or Bilaspur school
label: Description
content: Painted in an eccentric palette of lemon yellow, warm pink, and mauve, this scene represents an ashram. The two young disciples Rama and Lakshmana appear twice: once with their teachers on the painting's left and again on the left by the gateway in the woven brush/bramble fence. A tiger and water buffalo lap water from the pond.
label: Inscriptions
content: Inscribed on the top, right and bottom sides of the red border in takri script; Inscribed on the reverse in nagari: Ara[n]ya, 25; right side and an upside down.
label: Provenance
content: Raja Raghbir Singh, Shangri, Kullu Valley, India.
label: Provenance
content: 1970
label: Provenance
content: Sale, London, Sotheby’s, Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, July 15, 1970, lot no. 164: “Lakshmana Arriving at a Hermitage by a Lake.”
label: Provenance
content: From 1970 to 2001
label: Provenance
content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), Beverly Hills, California, purchased at auction, “Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures” Sotheby’s, London, July 15, 1970, lot no. 164, “Lakshmana Arriving at a Hermitage by a Lake.” [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 2001 to 2018
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001. [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 2018
label: Provenance
content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim. [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Ralph Benkaim purchased the painting in July 1970 from Sotheby’s, two years before Indian paintings were classified as antiquities by the Indian government, according to his personal records via Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Acquisition Justification Form, object file, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Collection
content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Raja Raghbir Singh
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Sotheby's (London)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
place: label: Origin
content: Kulu or Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: tiger
label: Topic
content: water buffalo
label: Topic
content: Ramayana
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: Lakshmana
label: Topic
content: ashram
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: S2018.1.10
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (painting): 18.4 × 29.2 cm (7 1/4 × 11 1/2 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 21.6 × 32.1 cm (8 1/2 × 12 5/8 in)