Krishna playing with the <em>gopis</em>, folio from a <em>Rasikpriya</em>
date: label: Date
content: dated 1686 (Samvat 1743)
name: label: Artist
content: Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697)
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Bikaner school
label: Description
content: Between two trees Krishna, wearing a gold crown, dances with two gopis, while another watches. In the foreground a confidant speaks to Radha seated outside a building.
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso: in nagari script: rukdin ro sam. 1743 pota raskapriya am.52. By Ruknuddin, folio 52 of the Rasikpriya done in vs. 1743/a.d.1686
label: Provenance
content: To 1967
label: Provenance
content: Sri Moti Chand Khajanchi, Bikaner [1]
label: Provenance
content: 1967
label: Provenance
content: Nowlakah, Calcutta [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1967 to 2001
label: Provenance
content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), purchased from Nowlakah, Calcutta in December 1967 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 2001 to 2018
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001
label: Provenance
content: From 2018
label: Provenance
content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to information from Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
label: Provenance
content: [2] Ralph Benkaim purchased the painting from Nowlakah, Calcutta in December 1967, several years before Indian paintings were classified as antiquities by the Indian government, according to his personal records, as relayed by Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Collection
content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Sri Moti Chand Khajanchi
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Nowlakah
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
place: label: Origin
content: Bikaner, Rajasthan state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: Krishna
label: Topic
content: Radha
label: Topic
content: Gopi
label: Topic
content: Rasikapriya
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
label: Topic
content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
setName: label: See more items in
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: S2018.1.43
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (painting): 19.3 × 13.5 cm (7 5/8 × 5 5/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 26.2 × 18.4 cm (10 5/16 × 7 1/4 in)