Author
Indian
Publication Date
ca. 1750
Publication Place
India, Delhi (Place of Origin) -
Subject
India, Nepal, and Tibet, Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic Manuscripts, Islamic World
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
H: 11 13/16 x W: 8 11/16 in. (30 x 22 cm); Image H: 7 1/4 x W: 3 3/4 in. (18.4 x 9.5 cm); Framed H: 20 1/8 × W: 15 3/16 × D: 1 1/4 in. (51.12 × 38.58 × 3.18 cm)
Library
The Walters Art Museum
Record ID
W.876
Library Location
Not on view
Date
ca. 1750
Notes
This painting, Walters manuscript leaf W.876, dating to the 12th century AH/AD 18th, depicts 3 women seated within 2 leafy bowers. The Nayika (female lover or heroine) sits alone, while her 2 female companions, known as sakhis, converse in the other bower. The painting may represent Utka nayika, a classification for heroines who are awaiting or yearning for their lovers. Often, they are shown on a bed of flowers or leaves that they have prepared in expectation of meeting their lovers. In the landscape are animals engaged in various activities. An outcrop of rocks in the distance forms a horizon, above which is a blue sky streaked with light gray or white washes to suggest a thin layer of high clouds.
Sergi Ayrıntıları
Paradise Imagined: Images of the Garden in the Islamic and Christian World. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
Sergi Yılı
2012
Bağış/Edinim
Gift of John and Berthe Ford, 2001
