Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Pahari Paintings: Art and Stories
Cleveland Museum of Art
22 documented works

Rumal with Vishnu temple and subsidiary shrines
1700s
Silk and silver embroidery on cotton tabby ground
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Posthumous portrait of Raja Chhatar Singh of Chamba smoking a hookah with his brother and son
c. 1700
Gum tempera and ink on paper
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Krishna and Balarama touching the feet of Vasudeva and Devaki, from the “Vertical” Bhagavata Purana
c. 1700–1725
Gum tempera, gold, and silver on paper
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Sindhu (Saindhava) Ragaputra of Shri Raga, from a Ragamala
c. 1680–90
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
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A group of women in ecstasy before Madhava, folio 4 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala
c. 1720
gum tempera and gold on paper
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King Vikrama summons Madhava, folio 15 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala
c. 1720
gum tempera and gold on paper
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Madhava plays his vina before five women drawing water from a well, folio 3 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala
c. 1720
gum tempera and gold on paper
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Kamakandala dies on hearing the news of Madhava’s death, folio 19 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala of Alam
c. 1720
gum tempera and gold on paper
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Madhava faces a man holding a scale, folio 1 from a Madhavanala-Kamakandala
c. 1720
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
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Master of the court of Mandi
Goddess standing on a mountaintop
c. 1720
Gum tempera and gold on paper
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Posthumous portrait of Raja Chhatar Singh of Chamba smoking a hookah
c. 1700
Gum tempera and ink on paper
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Raja Sansar Chand attacking Kangra Fort
after 1782
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on cotton cloth
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Feast where Vishnu decides he will incarnate as King Dasharatha’s sons, from Chapters 14–15 of the "Bala Kanda" (Book of Childhood) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)
c. 1810
Gum tempera and gold on paper
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