Vasanta Vilasa (a poem on Spring)
date: label: Date
content: 1451
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Pre-Mughal school
label: Label
content: This unique scroll, over thirty-six feet long, is filled with poems and illustrations celebrating springtime, when Kama, god of love, evokes passion in the hearts of all. In eighty-four verses, the poem employs lush verbal imagery to evoke the beauty of spring, and the paintings closely follow the text. The spirited poses and angular lines of the body, the pert faces with the stylized projecting eye, and the brilliant colors of the paintings are typical of Western Indian painting in the pre-Mughal period.
label: Provenance
content: To 1932
label: Provenance
content: N. C. Mehta, Lucknow, India to 1932 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1932
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from N. C. Mehta, Lucknow, India in 1932 [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Body Image (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: Colonel Hanna's Pictures (August 21, 1999 to February 6, 2000)
label: Exhibition History
content: Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)
label: Exhibition History
content: South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Arts of South Asia (May 13, 1985 to December 2, 1985)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Imperial Image: Painting for the Mughal Court (September 25, 1981 to 30 March 1982)
label: Exhibition History
content: Indian Art (January 1, 1963 to January 28, 1981)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Art, Gallery 8 (July 15, 1958 to January 1, 1963)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Painting, 1955 (October 24, 1955 to November 28, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to February 25, 1956)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings, Gallery 7 (January 10, 1945 to October 2, 1947)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings, Gallery 4 (May 5, 1933 to January 9, 1945)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: N. C. Mehta
place: label: Origin
content: Gujarat state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: spring
label: Topic
content: poetry
label: Topic
content: illumination
label: Topic
content: Kama
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1932.24
objectType: label: Type
content: Manuscript
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper mounted on cloth
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 1101.5 × 24.5 cm (433 11/16 × 9 5/8 in)
label: Style
content: Western Indian style