LORD KRISHNA AND THE BATHING GOPIS
Jaipur School, Rajasthan, North-Western India, ca. 1880 - 1920

Opaque pigments and ink heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting a beloved scene among Krishna's worshippers, portraying the Hindu god perched on a tree over a pond, playing the flute and admiring the gopis (female cowherds) bathing after stealing their sarees and robes, some of the gopis rising from the water with a puzzled look, trying to locate their garments, Radha portrayed with a large golden halo standing next to a group of gopis in the water in the foreground, holding her hands in prayer to convince Krishna to return the stolen sarees, set within black and blue rules, and yellow, burgundy and orange borders, glazed and mounted in an old wooden frame by a 19th-century Belgian framer, Camille Weber, 55cm x 45cm including the frame.