Krishna on a rock with cows addressing a bird

Krishna is the youthful deity associated with pastoral landscapes and lovers. In this image he has just ceased playing his emblematic flute, his melody having summoned a single bird that is perhaps a symbol of his estranged beloved. Krishna himself seems to await his gopi girls, who are absent from the scene except by artistic suggestion. This is a somewhat unusual image of Krishna, therefore, in which it is he rather than the girls who must await the sunset tryst in a verdant landscape away from society's gaze. Through Krishna's deeply sentimental face and outstretched arm, the artist has skillfully imbued the image with a sense of emotionalism and dynamism that lingers like the sound of the celestial melody.