KRISHNA AND RADHA LOCKED IN AN AMOROUS EMBRACE

NORTH INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1810

细节

KRISHNA AND RADHA LOCKED IN AN AMOROUS EMBRACE
NORTH INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1810
Krishna wearing a gold pointed crown and a long flower garland reclining on a charpoy and holding Radha round the waist, she draped in an orange veil with her hair tied up, a lotus flower and flower garland set on small table, inside a walled formal garden with fountains and a vaulted pavilion, surrounded by a dark blue scrolling floral border set on wide red-ruled margins
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
8¼ x 6¼ in. (20.9 x 15.8 cm.), painting
9 5/8 x 7 3/8 in. (24.3 x 18.6 cm.), folio

来源

Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1970s-80s

拍品专文

For a miniature with a similar depiction of Krishna and Radha in an embrace dated to 1808 AD, see B.N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer, Court Painters of Northern India, Pahari Masters, Zurich, 1992, no. 154, pp. 356-57.