Kalighat School, late nineteenth century
Kalighat School, late nineteenth century

Radha-Krishna; and Radha and Krishna

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Kalighat School, late nineteenth century
Radha-Krishna; and Radha and Krishna
watercolour heightened with white, unframed
11 x 9 in. (27.9 x 22.9 cm.); and 10 x 9 in. (27.3 x 22.9 cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

Both of these images depict the blissful union of Radha and Krishna. Krishna is depicted playing the flute and the scene stems from the climactic tableau formed at the end of rasalila or other such performances relating to Krishna worship.

For a similar work from the Kalighat School, see J. Jain, Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World, Chidambaram, 1999, pl. 63.

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