A Courtesan and Her Lover Estranged by a Quarrel: Page from a Rasamanjari series, dated 1694–95, India (Punjab Hills, Basohli), Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper, Overall: 8 5/8 x 12 3/4in. (21.9 x 32.4cm), Paintings, Devidasa of Nurpur (active ca. 1680–ca. 1720), The Rasamanjari (Essence of the Experience of Delight) is a series of late fifteenth-century poems that subtly categorizes amorous situations, moods, and physical traits of women. In this image, the half-open doorway alludes to the lover’s hasty departure from the palace of his mistress
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Courtesan, Lover Estranged, Quarrel, Page, Rasamanjari series, dated 1694–95, India, Punjab Hills, Basohli, Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, gold, paper, Overall, 8 5/8 x 12 3/4in, 21.9 32.4cm, Paintings, Devidasa of Nurpur, active ca., 1680–ca., 1720, Rasamanjari, Essence, Experience, Delight, series, late fifteenth-century, poems, subtly categorizes, amorous, situations, moods, physical traits, women, image, half-open doorway, alludes, lover, hasty, departure, palace, mistress
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