Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery
Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
Galleries : 132 objects
The disrobing of Draupadi
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Description
In a famous episode from the Mahabharata, the five Pandava brothers are humiliated by their Kaurava rivals, who have won all their possessions and even their joint wife Draupadi in a dice game. The Kaurava prince Duhshasana attempts to strip Draupadi naked before the assembly. But her honour is miraculously preserved: as fast as her garments are removed, new ones appear in their place.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north-west India › Punjab Hills › Himachal Pradesh › Guler (possible place of creation)Asia › India › north-west India › Jammu and Kashmir › Kathua district › Basohli (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 1760 - 1765
- Artist/maker
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attributed to Nainsukh (c. 1710 - 1778) (artist)
- Material and technique
- gouache with gold on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 36.4 x 45.9 x 1.8 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 24.6 x 34.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.9
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 73 on p. 172, pp. 19 & 174, illus. p. 173
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- Returned to lender
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