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Gita Govinda: Krishna awaiting Radha
Attributed to: Sahibdin (Indian, active about 1620–55)
Indian, Rajasthani
Probably 1629
Object Place: Mewar, Rajasthan, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 26.3 × 18.6 cm (10 3/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number32.53
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
InscriptionsInscription in front top: "Oh Radha, the sly Krishna is languishing; murmuring 'Radha, Radha,' and tearing plantain leaves from the tree, he has made on them a bed of flowers; he is wasting away, as he watches the road; whither the buzzing bees are winging, there is your friend on the plantain leaves." Radha, weeping, very quickly went towards the thicket; went where the friend with the swinging earrings was awaiting the artless girl like some biji[vine]; the young Radha moved with the gait of an elephant.
Provenance1932, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 3, 1932)