A Rajasthani style of painting, created on paper using watercolors. The painting shows a lady standing in the midst of trees holding garlands in both of her hands. On either of her sides there is a peacock pecking the flowers of the garland. Behind her seen a red curtain. The scene is laid in a wooded landscape covered with flowering shrubs and adorned with a mango, palm, plantain and cypress trees. In the centre, against a red background, stands the fair heroine wearing a blue flowered odhani, yellow choli, striped skirt and ornaments decorated with pompons, and holding a garland in either hand pecked by a peacock on either side. Black sky; lotus pond in foreground. Devanagari superscription at the top giving the dhyana of the Ragini. Ragini Todi. This painting of Rajasthani School from the period of Malwa, C.A.D. 1650. In this painting, the ladies are dressed in ghanghara choli and odhani. Inscription is written in Devanagari script.
- Identifier
- AM-MIN-1092
- Material
- Paper
- Pages
- 20.955 x 15.24 cm
- Published in
- Mewar, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Type
- Miniature Painting