Ragini Chaiti

ca. 1775

12.4 cm 18.1 cm

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The musical "mode" ("raga, ragini") is a melody reduced to its basic elements. Modes were classified and given names, and sets of paintings with the same names were produced with the mode represented by a woman. Here the mode is "chaiti," which is sung in the late afternoon.

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John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2001, by gift.
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