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A Woman Plucks Leaves While Awaiting Her Lover: Gunakali Ragini of Malkos, from the “Chawand Ragamala”

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a colorful painting on yellowed paper. A yellow border surrounds a rectangular scene. Inside the scene, two people stand on a pink veranda in front of a pink building with a green and red bed visible through a doorway. The person on the left is a woman wearing a green and yellow sari; she holds a bunch of leaves in her right hand. The person on the right is a man with blue skin wearing a green, red, and yellow skirt; he holds a pendant in his left hand and a leaf in his right. Three white geese stand in front of the veranda. Two peacocks are on top. A tree with green leaves is on the right. The background of the scene inside the border includes a blue sky with white clouds, hills, and green foliage. Black text in a foreign language appears at the top of the yellow border.

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823 × 900 px
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