Kichaka and Bhimasena, Folio from a Dispersed Mahabharata Series

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Caption

Indian. Kichaka and Bhimasena, Folio from a Dispersed Mahabharata Series, 1670. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 6 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (15.9 × 39.4 cm) 4 1/8 × 4 7/8 in. (10.5 × 12.4 cm) frame: 17 × 23 × 2 in. (43.2 × 58.4 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 80.278.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Culture

Indian

Title

Kichaka and Bhimasena, Folio from a Dispersed Mahabharata Series

Date

1670

Geography

Place made: Mysore, Karnataka, India

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

6 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (15.9 × 39.4 cm) 4 1/8 × 4 7/8 in. (10.5 × 12.4 cm) frame: 17 × 23 × 2 in. (43.2 × 58.4 × 5.1 cm)

Inscriptions

Recto, in black ink, in Devanagari script, in upper left margin: Viram 26; in upper right margin: Ram 26; in lower margin, below image: Sairandhri Kichaka Bhimasena

Credit Line

Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky

Accession Number

80.278.2

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