Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.73

v2.c19.73

**Śrī Krishna with the flute.** Krishna stands with crossed feet beneath a *kadamba* tree, attended by two *gopīs*, one with a fly-whisk, the other offering a lotus flower: cows and water in the foreground. Painting on paper mounted on cloth. Rājasthānī (Jaipur), late 18th century. The former owner writes to me: ‘While packing them I came across an inscription in Devnagari on the back of the left lower end corner of each, which is most probably the date of their creation “Samvata 1856 Magh Shukla 5”, and the name of the picture are written very clearly as the Phágalila. Hence it means that these paintings were for the first time used at the Basant-utsava some 110 years ago’ (more exactly, A. D. 1799). The second picture referred to represents Hoḷī festivities. Both are in the collection of the Mahārājā of Cossimbazar. Size of original *ca.* 5 ft. × 2 ft. 9 in. Vol. I, p. 14.