Vilaval Ragini: a Woman Looking at a Mirror, Page from a Ragamala series

Artist Region, Rajasthan-jaipur

Maker Unidentified artist

Datelate 18th century

MediumOpaque watercolors and gold on paper

DimensionsImage: 5 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches (13.7 x 15.9 cm);
Sheet: 14 x 10 1/4 inches (35.6 x 26 cm)

CultureIndia, Jaipur

PeriodRajasthan, Jaipur

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Wolf Ladejinsky

Terms

Paintings
Gouache
Domestic interiors
on paper
seperate multiple borders
Indian

Object number74.060.003

Label CopyThis painting comes from a dispersed Ragamala (Garland of Musical Modes). The most common configuration of ragamala consists of thirty-six musical modes: six male modes, called raga, and thirty female modes, known as ragini (five "wives" for each male). Each raga or ragini evokes a time of day and a particular mood or emotion. Vilaval ragini shows a woman looking at herself in a mirror held up by her attendant. She sits on a couch, putting on her make-up before getting dressed and going out to meet her lover.

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