The Marriage of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, page from a Bhagavata Purana

c. 1525–40

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Northern India

Medium

Gum tempera and ink on paper

Measurements

Overall: 16.3 x 21.5 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski 1976.26

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Pradyumna was the son of Krishna and an incarnation of the god of love.

Description

Like his father Krishna, Pradyumna appears blue in color. He is shown three times in this painting with his bride. The scene of his marriage is in the upper level where a Brahmin, a Hindu priest, to the right of the pole and wearing a white lower garment and looped topknot of hair, performs the ceremony. Their arrival at the ceremony is pictured below. The flattened spaces and bold variety of background colors are typical of a major strain of Indian paintings made before the time of the Mughal emperor Akbar, who encouraged stylistic changes derived from exposure to Persian and European art forms.