Kambhodi Ragini from a Ragamala

Object Details

• School/Tradition

  Deccani school

• Provenance

  From at least 1950 to early 1970s

  Maharaja of Bikaner, India, from at least 1950 [1]

  To 1999

  Francesca Galloway, London, to 1999

  From 1999

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Francesca Galloway in 1999

  Notes:

  [1] The object was first published in 1950, as part of the private collection of the Maharaja of Bikaner at Lallgarh Palace. There is a written statement by an outside scholar attesting to its sale in the early 1970s to a private collector in London, and it is well known that a very major group of paintings from the Bikaner Collection did indeed come onto the market at that time.

  With this information there is no provenance problem with the acquisition of this painting by the Freer Gallery of Art (see documentation in the object file found in the Registrar's office) (according to Curatorial Note 3, Milo C. Beach, January 13, 1999, in the object record). Also, attached to the back of the object is a sheet of paper which reads: "Miniature painting belongs to the personal collection of H H Maharaja Bikaner..." (see Curatorial Note 3, Elizabeth F. Duley, April 8, 1999, in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Francesca Galloway

• Origin

  Deccan plateau, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1570s

• Name

  Galloway, Francesca

• Place

  Deccan plateau, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Music, Ragamala, Woman

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings