NDLI: Musical Mode, Possibly Kanara Putra

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Musical Mode, Possibly Kanara Putra

Content Provider	The Heritage Lab
Artist	Anonymous
Organization	Walters Art Museum
Spatial Coverage	Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh
Temporal Coverage	Circa 1700
Description	Two finely dressed noblemen play music under a canopy, while a third attends them, listening to their sound. The central figure’s stringed instrument is a vina; his companion accompanies him on a striped tanpura. The painting belongs to a series that illustrates poetic verses evoKing the moods of specific musical modes: masculine “ragas,” feminine “raginis,” and their associated “putras,” or “sons.” This scene most likely illustrates the ragaputra known as “Kanara,” which one text describes in this way: “His body perfumed with delicious scents of various flowers, clothed in yellow robes, Kanara, extremely versed in musical entertainment, fascinates the dwellers of heaven.” As is characteristic of this series, produced in a Bilaspur workshop, this painting is rendered generally in the Basohli style of the second half of the 17th century, with a bright and monochromatic background, usually a mustard yellow as here, against which the figures are defined with bold clarity. The velvety green and red baldachin and the durrie-covered floor are, however, rendered in perspective and show Mughal influences, which were relatively strong in Bilaspur in the late 17th century. This influence explains why a Muslim figure is used for Kanara, his naturalistic posture with his head in three-quarter profile, and the expressive interaction of the figures.
File Format	JPG / JPEG
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
Use Rights URL	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed
Subject Keyword	Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh Raga Ragamala Ragaputra Pahari Miniature Painting Walters Art Museum
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Painting

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