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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RASIKAPRIYA SERIES: A closely related composition from an earlier Bikaner Bhagavata
KRISHNA AND THE GOPIS IN THE YAMUNA RIVER Purana series is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Topsfield, In
BIKANER, CIRCA 1680 the Realm of Gods and Kings, New York, 2004, p.151, no.58).
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
Image: 7 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (18 x 16 cm); Published
Folio: 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28.5 x 21 cm) Ludwig Habighorst, Blumen – Baeume – Goettergaerten, Ragaputra
Edition Koblenz, 2011, p.88, fig.63.
$20,000 - 30,000 Harsha Dehejia, A Festival of Krishna, New Delhi, 2008, p.177.
Between hopeful cow-herders (gopas) on the left bank and reluctant Provenance
wives (gopis) on the right bank, willing gopis frolic in India’s sacred Bikaner Royal Library
Yumana river around Krishna and Radha in a tender embrace. Private German Collection
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