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INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, CIRCA 1680
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AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A RASIKAPRIYA: RADHA PREPARES TO MEET KRISHNA
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, CIRCA 1680
Radha depicted three times: at bottom, seated on a dais being massaged by two attendants with a third holding a tray of refreshments; in the middle, adorning herself with jewels set inside a white-walled chamber; above, dressed as the young bride or navodha nayika being led by an attendant into Krishna's chambers, who observes the entire preparations from a window above, on green ground with blue horizon, a yellow header with verses in devanagari at top, all set inside wide gold ruled red margins
Opaque watercolor on wasli heightened with gold
11 x 6 in. (27.9 x 15.2 cm.), painting
11¾ x 7 in. (29.8 x 17.7 cm.), folio
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, CIRCA 1680
Radha depicted three times: at bottom, seated on a dais being massaged by two attendants with a third holding a tray of refreshments; in the middle, adorning herself with jewels set inside a white-walled chamber; above, dressed as the young bride or navodha nayika being led by an attendant into Krishna's chambers, who observes the entire preparations from a window above, on green ground with blue horizon, a yellow header with verses in devanagari at top, all set inside wide gold ruled red margins
Opaque watercolor on wasli heightened with gold
11 x 6 in. (27.9 x 15.2 cm.), painting
11¾ x 7 in. (29.8 x 17.7 cm.), folio
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, late 1960s or 1970s