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An Illustration from a Nayika Series: Abhisarika Nayika
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Description
- An Illustration from a Nayika Series: Abhisarika Nayika
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image 7 7/8 by 6 in. (20 by 15.2 cm.)
- folio 8 1/2 by 6 1/2 in. (21.6 by 16.5 cm.)
The painting depicts the nayika rushing through a forbidding forest at night. She loses some of her jewelry in her haste, serpents twine around her ankles as she pauses in the dark and ghouls accost her. However her ardor is so great that she continues undeterred to keep her tryst with her lover.
Catalogue Note
Compare with an illustration depicting the same subject in the collection of the Government Museum, Chandigarh; see B. N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer, Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India, Zurich, 1992, no. 170, p. 387.