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accession number:	1936.682
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.682
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:30.565000

Radha and Krishna's Reconciliation, c. 1790–1800. India, Pahari, Kangra school, late 18th Century. Gum tempera and ink on paper; overall: 18.3 x 14 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1936.682

title:				Radha and Krishna's Reconciliation
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creation date:			c. 1790–1800
creation date earliest:		1785
creation date latest:		1805
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creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture:	India, Pahari, Kangra school, late 18th Century
technique:	Gum tempera and ink on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 18.3 x 14 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	'Angry was the Manini, and not the least appeased by any prayers, she lay asleep in wrath and drew the sheet above her head for spite; Then all of a sudden and softly treading came her sakhi on the scene; and sending a message with his eyes, her lover rose and sat at her feet.  Albeit she knew full well it was Hari's (Krishna's) touch, she made as if she knew it not; the newly-beloved spoke to him with a smile--- "O my dear friend, stay not apart, but come, let you and I on one bed sleep, and spread on sheet (above us)."

Inscription above top border: "The stubborn heroine, wrathful and recalcitrant, drew the sheet over her head feigning sleep. As her sakhi entered, the lover, signalling with his eyes, rose and sat at her feet. Although she knew it, was Hari's touch, the heroine dissembled, saying with a smile: ‘Come, friend [feminine gender], let us sleep on one bed and spread one sheet [over us].'"1 

1. Inscription translated in Coomaraswamy, 1916, 1: 48-49. 
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Wooster College Exhibition
	opening date:   1970-04-05T05:00:00
	<i>Wooster College Exhibition</i>. The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH (organizer) (April 5-27, 1970).

	title:		Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2017
	opening date:   2017-04-10T04:00:00
	<i>Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2017</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 10-November 6, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Ananda K. Coomaraswamy [1877–1947] sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1936
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1936–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hollis, Howard C. “Three Rajput Pictures.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 25, no. 6 (June 1938): 113–114.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 113–114
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137936

	Leach, Linda York. <em>Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 122
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