Radha and Krishna
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Radha and Krishna is a 1885 paint by Unknown, a Impressionism work, depicting Kalighat, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows two figures sitting under a tree. The person on the right has dark skin, a red and yellow outfit, and a headpiece with swirling lines. The person on the left wears a black-and-white striped sari, sitting with their hand resting on the other’s leg. Both have bold outlines and bright colors, with a yellow spear leaning against the tree. The scene looks like a moment of quiet between two characters, set in a simple outdoor space. The style matches *kalighat* paintings, which were made in Bengal around this time. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A painting in opaque watercolor on paper from 1885 depicts Radha calming Krishna by gently touching his feet as they sit beneath a tree. The work was later acquired in 1894 from Miss M Steele, whose mother, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge, had inherited the piece; Steele noted that her grandmother may have collected it during time spent in India.
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