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The gopis dance in the forest, or Sarat Purnima
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Description
This Kishangarh temple hanging (picchavai) of the Vallabhacharya sect depicting four gopis (milkmaids) dancing would have been hung beside an image of Krishna. The leading gopi gazes up towards Krishna in adoration. This subject is associated with the festival of Sarat Purnima, the full moon night in autumn when Krishna took part in a blissful round dance (Rasmandala) with the gopis.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › Kishangarh (place of creation)
- Date
- 1720 - 1725
- Associated people
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possibly Savant Singh, Maharaja of Kishangarh (ruled 1748 - 1764) (subject)possibly Savant Singh, Maharaja of Kishangarh (ruled 1748 - 1764) (commissioner)
- Material and technique
- gouache on cotton cloth
- Dimensions
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frame 202.5 x 186 x 5 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 186.5 x 170 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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textile › hanging › temple-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.30
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 96 on p. 226, p. 20, illus. p. 227
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- Returned to lender
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