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Women Play Music for Radha and Krishna: Chitrini Nayika, from a Rasikapriya
c. 1650
- Medium
- gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Page: 22.9 x 16.2 cm (9 x 6 3/8 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 idea of aesthetic appreciation as explored by the poet Keshavdas (Indian, 1555–1617) in the excerpt from his Rasikapriya written on the back of this painting is envisioned as the appreciation of music. With their arms around each other, Radha and Krishna enjoy the performance on a stringed instrument (setar), cymbals, and drum in the forest.
