Pichvai Raas Leela Lot n° 288

India, Rajasthan, Nathdwara, early 20th century Cotton canvas painted with opaque polychrome pigments. Size: 177 x 113 cm Against a backdrop of a lush garden animated by peacocks, the panel features, in a balanced composition, Krishna in the form of the deity Sri Nathiji, surrounded by four rounds of gopis, dancers and musicians, accompanied by Krishna's illusory manifestations and four celestial chariots known as "vimana". The dance symbolizes union. Bibliography : For a similar work on the subject of Krishna's Dance, see Annales du musée national des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet et du musée Cernuschi, Cahiers de l'École Francaise de l'Extrême-Orient, Tome XLIX, 1994, p. 62. A pichwai, gouache heightened with gold on cloth, depicting gopis, dancers and musicians around a shrine to Sri Nath-ji, Nathdwara, early 20th century