Krishna talking with a confidante of Radha from the Rasikapriya

Object Details

• Artist

  Nuruddin

• Court

  Bikaner Court

• School/Tradition

  Rajput school

• Description

  Krishna kneels on an orange mat in a glade beside a pool with the girl standing before him in conversation. Radha kneels on a yellow mat in the sky above as if in Krishna's thoughts. A pink-flowered creeper entwines about the trunk of a tree on the right, and a cobra approaches its base. The border is red with the inscription on the reverse.

• Inscriptions

  Inscription: On reverse with the date V. S. 1740 and the name of the artist Nuruddin.

• Provenance

  To 1971

  Doris Wiener Gallery, New York [1]

  From 1971 to 1991

  Carter Burden, New York purchased from Doris Wiener Gallery, New York in 1971 [2]

  1991

  Sale, New York, Sotheby’s, The Carter Burden Collection of Indian Paintings, March 27, 1991, lot no. 22: “An Illustration to the Rasikapriya: Krishna Talking with a Confidante of Radha who is Visualized above with Another Companion” [3]

  From 1991

  Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC purchased at auction, “The Carter Burden Collection of Indian Paintings,” Sotheby’s, New York, March 27, 1991, lot no. 22, “An Illustration to the Rasikapriya: Krishna Talking with a Confidante of Radha who is Visualized above with Another Companion” through Andrew Kahane, Ltd., Oriental Art [4]

  Notes:

  [1] See invoice from Doris Wiener Gallery, Inc., dated March 25, 1971 to Carter Burden, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See Sotheby’s, New York auction catalogue, The Carter Burden Collection of Indian Paintings, from the sale of March 27, 1991.

  [4] See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file, Collections Management Office. See also correspondences with Andrew Kahane, Ltd., Oriental Art in the object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)

  South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Doris Wiener Gallery

  Carter Burden

  Sotheby's (New York)

• Origin

  Bikaner, Rajasthan state, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1680s

• Name

  Doris Wiener Gallery, Burden, Carter, Sotheby's (New York)

• Place

  Bikaner, Rajasthan state, India

• Topic

  Trees, Lovers, South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Krishna, Rasikapriya, Children, Snakes, Radha

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings