Der bezaubernde Flötenspieler: Krishna spielt für eine Hirtenfrau Flöte

Unknown (Indian)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1775
Height:
15.5 cm  (6 1/8 in.)
Width:
25.7 cm  (10 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 18.0 x 27.5 cm
Technique / Medium:
pigment painting with gold on paper
Place of creation:
Guler (Bhārat)
School:
Pahari

Additional titles

The enchanting flute player: Krishna plays flute for a shepherdess

Description

Krishna playing flute for a shepherdess. The anonymous artist is identified as a master of the first generation after Manaku and Nainsukh of Guler.

Iconclass

12H13(KRISHNA)51
Krishna playing the flute

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2
Object information and image, Website, Museum Rietberg Zürich

Bibliographic references

Goswamy, Brijinder N. and Eberhard Fischer. Pahari masters: Court painters of Northern India (Dehli etc.: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Notes

Folio 27 of Gita Govinda series of 1775/1780.

RIdIM record id

6171