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Ravana with his Ministers; Sita in the Asoka Grove

(Indian, about 1700–1760)
about 1725
Object PlaceGuler, Punjab Hills, India
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolor and gold on paper
DimensionsOverall: 59.7 x 83 cm (23 1/2 x 32 11/16 in.)
Image: 56.5 x 80.5 cm (22 1/4 x 31 11/16 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2748
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsObverse: at top, under red border (shimmering through), one line (to be read).
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)