A Pahari painting in opaque watercolour on paper, probably from the Kangra school in the Punjab Hills, showing Radha and Krishna sheltering together beneath a tree as a storm gathers overhead, both figures gesturing toward the darkening clouds. The storm-cloud meeting is one of the most repeated subjects of Kangra painting's romantic vision of the pair, read as an image of intimate refuge and of the divine lovers' constancy through the seasons. Dated to the early twentieth century, it exemplifies the school's elongated figures, almond eyes and lyrical attention to foliage and weather, and is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, viewable by appointment.
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Date of Creation RegionPunjab Hills, probably Kangra 1 Subject Matter
Depicted SubjectRadha and Krishna sheltering beneath a tree from an approaching storm, both gesturing toward the gathering rain clouds. 1 Rights and Reproduction
Reproduction and CopyrightSourced to the subject's own accountThis painting is out of copyright, but a specific modern photograph of it carries its own separate copyright. This atlas describes and cites the work rather than reproducing an image of it. 2 Physical Form
MediumOpaque watercolour on paper 1 DimensionsImage 276 x 189 mm; page 305 x 220 mm 1 Custody
Current LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London (accession IS.129-1949) 1 Current CustodianVictoria and Albert Museum 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Radha, Deities This source names Radha directly: "school in the Punjab Hills, showing Radha and Krishna sheltering together beneath a tree as a storm gathers overhead, both figures gesturing toward the darkening clouds."
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