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Krishna's Insomnia, Page from a Rasikapriya

1634

Central India, Malwa school, 17th century

Ink and color on paper

Image: 17.8 x 13.8 cm (7 x 5 7/16 in.); Overall: 20.5 x 16.5 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.)

Gift of N. M. Heeramaneck 1938.303

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

recto, accross top: She comes to embrace me only after I appease her in millions of ways. [Even while embracing me] she keeps her mind wide awake and often looks around in the midst of sleep [i.e. Krishna cannot sleep soundly]. Although my beloved is away, she [Sleep] does not trust me for a moment. I can never know her. Behaving like a newly wedded shy wife, she runs away from me in the middle of the night." V. Dwivedi, 1968, Appendix B, p. 27.

Provenance
Heeramaneck
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 766 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 238 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 238 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 305 archive.org
Seitz, Konrad. Orchha, Datia, Panna: "Malwa"-Miniaturen von den rajputischen Höfen Bundelkhands 1580-1850 : Sammlung Eva und Konrad Seitz. Köln: Hanstein, 2015. Reproduced: p. 202, fig. 5.6
Exhibition history

Asia House, New York City, "Rajput Painting," Dec. 3, 1960-Jan. 22, 1961.

Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115); August 13, 2003 - February 18, 2004.

Indian Minature Rotation (Gallery 115); August 18, 2004 -

India's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950).

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