↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · late 1790s
Cherry Blossoms in the Wind
Utagawa Toyokuni
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber or Southwestern India, Deccan · 1650–80
Maru Ragini, from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies)
Creator not recorded by the museum
- Date
- 1650–80
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: 26 x 17.6 cm (10 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Country / context
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber or Southwestern India, Deccan
- Movement / tradition
- Rajput painting · Source ↗
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- South Asian arts ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
A Rajput warrior holding a spear, with piercing dagger (katar) and sword attached to his belt, stands alone with his camel in a landscape. They have arrived at the banks of a stream, verdant in contrast to the intense hot yellow of the ground behind them. The musical mode associated with this painting is based on folk melodies of Rajasthan, where local stories feature a hero with a camel mount.
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
