Page from an Album: Yogini Playing a Vina (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
This delicate, lightly colored painting mounted into a Deccani album page shows a stylish yogini (holy woman) seated on a rocky outcrop near a meandering stream. SO enchanting is the melody from her vina, a stringed instrument, that deer gather to listen alongside a noblewoman who leans against a willow tree. Beside the yogini stands an attendant with a peacock-feather fan. This picture’s subject resembles depictions of the Todi Ragini, but it is unclear whether the painting was part of a Ragamala series. Quite Mughal in style, it may be a copy of a North Indian painting made for one of Golconda’s Mughal governors in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Paul Mellon
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