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Nanda and the elders, 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
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1960.53
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Location
242B Indian Painting
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Description

In a page from a manuscript about the life of the Hindu god Krishna, Krishna’s foster father, wearing green, confers about moving their community to a new location. Their current village has been beset by demons sent by the evil king to kill Krishna.

Typical of South Asian compositions of the early 1500s, figures and other elements are arranged in horizontal rows. Above, in the story of an encounter between a gardener and a merchant’s daughter who wants a rose, we see use of the same Mughal convention, shown with a more natural conceptualization of space. Mughal compositions were often based on earlier illustrations.
Horizontally oriented drawing with a central row of seated men, four on each side, with light to medium-light skin tones, facing each other. All have white or black facial hair and wear sheer garments except for the man on our central right, wearing a dark green robe patterned with red dots encircled by white dots. A red-orange band runs behind the men, a row of trees branching out from it into an upper dark blue band.

Nanda and the elders, page from a Bhagavata Purana

c. 1525–40

Northern India

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