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Maker(s):Ascribed to Jagannath
Culture:Indian, active early 18th century
Title:Krishna’s Beauty has Bound the Beloved’s Heart, illustration from a dispersed manuscript of the Satsai (700 Verses) of Biharilal (1595–1663)
Date Made:1719 CE; dated Vikram Samvat (a Hindu calendar) 1776
Type:Painting
Materials:Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Place Made:India; Rajasthan, Udaipur, Mewar court
Measurements:sheet: 9 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 21.59 cm; image: 8 5/8 in x 7 3/8 in; 21.9075 cm x 18.7325 cm
Narrative Inscription:  unsigned, dated 1719
Accession Number:  SC 2007.4.3
Credit Line:Bequest of John Kenneth Galbraith
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
red painted frame around thinner deep yellow frame with text at top around landscape with trees forming arches over two platforms, Krishna at lower left and again at upper center with a cowgirl, two other cowgirls at right watch them and three other cowgirls sit on a third platform at lower right near dark water flowing across bottom of scene

Label Text:
These are scenes from the "Sat Saiya" series. Krishna makes love with Radha while other Gopis hopefully wait their turn.

Tags:
landscapes; vegetation; architecture; women; men; costume; religion; Buddhism

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