''Krishna nun spielet im Lenze, dem frohen, tanzet mit Mädchen …"

Manaku (ca. 1700-ca. 1760)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1730
Height:
15.9 cm  (6 1/4 in.)
Width:
25.2 cm  (9 15/16 in.)
sheet: 21.1 x 30.7 cm
Technique / Medium:
pigment painting with gold and rose beetle particles on paper
Place of creation:
Guler (Bhārat)
School:
Pahari

Additional titles

"Krishna now play in the spring, the joyful one, dance with the girls …"

Description

Krishna dancing in the company of women, one woman playing a two-sided drum, probably a khol; another woman (right background) holding a frame drum (kanjira?); on the left side Krishna hugging a woman.

Iconclass

12H13(KRISHNA)5
non-aggressive, friendly or neutral activities and relationships of Krishna

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Khol [2654]
Kanjira [2649]

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).

Goswamy, Brijinder N. Manaku of Guler: The life and work of another great Indian painter from a small hill state (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2017).

Notes

Colophon, folio of the Gita Govinda series of 1730.

RIdIM record id

6173