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Lot Essay
This illustration is from the earliest known series of the Malwa school, dated 1634 AD in the colophon of one of the paintings (in a private collection).
The Rasikapriya ("A Connoisseur's Delight") is a Hindi work in verse written by Keshav Das (circa 1520-1601) in 1591 in Orchla in Madhya Pradesh. The text is concerned with love and types of lovers, usually represented by Krishna and his mortal lover Radha.
This Rasikapriya series was widely dispersed and although the main part of it is now in the National Museum, Delhi, other pages are now in the Foundation Custodia, Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Cleveland Museum of Art (Sven Gahlin, The Courts of India, Paris, 1991, cat.70, p.68-9).
The Rasikapriya ("A Connoisseur's Delight") is a Hindi work in verse written by Keshav Das (circa 1520-1601) in 1591 in Orchla in Madhya Pradesh. The text is concerned with love and types of lovers, usually represented by Krishna and his mortal lover Radha.
This Rasikapriya series was widely dispersed and although the main part of it is now in the National Museum, Delhi, other pages are now in the Foundation Custodia, Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Cleveland Museum of Art (Sven Gahlin, The Courts of India, Paris, 1991, cat.70, p.68-9).