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Rati, the Goddess of Erotic Love, Takes Aim at Krishna, from a Rasikapriya

c. 1660

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Raghogarh

Medium
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Measurements
Page: 31.8 x 26 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.); Miniature: 26 x 23.5 cm (10 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.183
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Most of the white pigment has flaked off of this painting.

Description

In a brightly lit chamber, the heroine (nayika) confers with her confidante (sakhi), perhaps to convey a message to Krishna, who sits in a grove near a lotus pond at the lower right. In the lower left corner, Rati shoots a flower arrow at Krisha to smite him with love for the nayika. The empty bower in the upper right awaits the lovers’ tryst.

Rati, the Goddess of Erotic Love, Takes Aim at Krishna, from a Rasikapriya

c. 1660

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Raghogarh

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