Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th and early 20th century, includes three paintings lined with red linen silk fabric and black band border, the first, a group of gopis on a hillside under a star filled moonlit night sky, river with lotus blossoms flows down the right side as a waterfall downwards to form a pond along the bottom edge, the second, features Krishna playing his flute above a group of cows and herders, above and below are lotus filled ponds, and the third, decorated with a courtier and consort seated together in a garden populated with peacocks and a cow wearing royal jewelry, below is a lotus pond (Each 65 x 49 in.), and two unlined painting, the first, of Krishna playing the flute under a star filled moonlit night sky with male attendants and gopis over a lotus pond (52 x 36 in.) and the second, with a scene of a courtier watching a group of gopis and below a line of gopis dancing and playing musical instruments above a lotus pond (54 1/2 x 34 in.), all five presented unframed.
Pichwai painting info
All five paintings with creases from folding; some scattered losses to pigments; and some dirt to surface; condition on larger lined paintings appears more distressed- one painting has holes to lower left side, all three have more surface creasing and wear than the unlined paintings.
