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Krishna and Radha Avoid Embarrassment: Mottaita Bhava, from a Rasikapriya
c. 1640
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 17.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The double-sided leaf is based on the theme of embarrassing situations avoided by trickery. Both sides are presented with the same composition and color palette, indicating the unity of emotion felt by the hero and the heroine. The paintings in concert with the verses explore a complex emotion experienced by lovers, its causes, and how it causes the lovers to react.
