Krishna plays the flute for Radha by a riverbank Kangra, 1820-30


gouache and gold on paper, in a painted oval with floral cornerpieces on a pale yellow ground, with blue and red border 233 x 165 mm.
|PublishedSimon Ray, Indian and Islamic Works of Art, London, November 2008, no. 73.Compare with a closely related composition with Radha holding a pan box and tray in the Victoria and Albert Museum, in which Krishna and Radha stand on a large white rock by a river which is identical to the three rocks below in the present lot: see W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London 1973, p. 227, no. 65.