A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder
1735–1745
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Page: 33.7 x 24.8 cm (13 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Miniature: 27.3 x 17.5 cm (10 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi
About
Themes of punishments of hell were popular in Rajasthani ateliers, and several courts commissioned paintings depicting infernal cruelty. The dark-skinned punisher pulls a royal figure from his terrace with chains and is about to smite him with his baton. A ferocious tiger can be seen ripping another man with his claws.