A Heroine Waiting for Her Paramour: Vasakasajja Nayika, from a Nurpur Rasikapriya
Unknown Artist
c. 1750
Medium
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Dimensions
image: 24.4 × 16.7 cm · page: 28.4 × 20.2 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Accession Number
2018.116
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Vasakasajja has been described as Nayika who arranges the bed for making love. She is seated on a bed of leaves by a pond, anxiously waiting for her lover. The painter has faithfully followed the poet’s description of the scene and depicted the fair-complexioned Nayika radiating against the otherwise dark surrounding, illuminating the tryst.