RADHA AND KRISHNA MEETING IN A GARDEN

This depiction has many of the features associated with the painting of Jaipur; the stiffness, the slightly stumpy figures and the detailing of the background with the very dense birds; see for example the outstanding Jaipur painting of Krishna and the gopis sheltering from the rain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Steven Kossak, Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th centuries, New York, 1997, no.71, p.114-5). The very strongly centralized composition however and formal depiction is more typical of the provincial Mughal centres of Lucknow and Faizabad whose paintings, particularly architectural compositions, are strictly symmetric; the figures, as here, are also equally stiff and with small-featured faces more like those found here.