Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series / India, Rajasthan, Mewar School / Attributed to
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.242
- Title
- Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series
- Artist Nationality
- Indian
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1630
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- India (nation)
- Rajasthan (state)
- Mewar
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Rajasthan (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Mewar
- Dimensions
- 24.77 cm x 19.05 cm (9 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- album leaf
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- calligraphy
- Physical Description
- Brightly colored painting with three primary registers. The uppermost and smallest register contains a poem. The lower two are larger and similar in size. The bottommost depicts stairs, architectural structures, snakes, and flowering plants. Above, the middle register frames a seated man under a canopy-like architectural form, who reaches out to grasp the wrist of a woman. Behind her is a flowering tree, and and the far right, and open door.
- Subject Matter
- According to the poem in the top register, this is a scene of two potential lovers meeting. The pair do not clasp hands or embrace, but the male appears to be forcibly grabbing the wrist of the woman. They are separated by an architectural structure: He remains in his room, seated on his bed, while she holds her hand up to her mouth, unsure and hesitant.
- The fertile flowering bush behind the woman may suggest his romantic overtures will be successful.
- The lower register shows a pair of snakes, one emerging for an analogous architectural canopy-like structure. Another snake, on the stairs above. is separated from the one below by what may be a palm tree, and two flowers on either side leaning slightly in opposite directions. It has been suggested that these snakes, in contrast to the man and woman above, will meet an obstacle in their pairing.
- Secondary Keywords
- architectural elements
- buildings and the land
- circulation elements
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- deciduous trees
- descriptors
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- document genres by form
- document genres for literary works
- image-making processes and techniques
- information forms
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by activity
- plants
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- stair components
- stairs and stair components
- steps and step components
- trees
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- writing (processes)
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 824 x 1096
- File Size
- 123 KB
- Record
- 1980/2.242
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"Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series; India, Rajasthan, Mewar School; Attributed to." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1980-sl-2.242/1980_2.242.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024.