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Radha Bani Thani Painting Overview

The document describes two paintings: 'Radha (Bani-Thani)' by Nihal Chand, a stylized portrait of Radha showcasing her beauty and attire reflective of Rajput royalty, and 'Bharat Meets Rama at Chitrakut' by Guman, depicting scenes from the Ramayana where Rama interacts with his family before his exile. Both paintings are created using watercolour in tempera on handmade paper and are part of the National Museum collection in Delhi. The first painting emphasizes Radha's ideal feminine beauty, while the second illustrates the emotional drama of Rama's farewell to his family.

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Radha Bani Thani Painting Overview

The document describes two paintings: 'Radha (Bani-Thani)' by Nihal Chand, a stylized portrait of Radha showcasing her beauty and attire reflective of Rajput royalty, and 'Bharat Meets Rama at Chitrakut' by Guman, depicting scenes from the Ramayana where Rama interacts with his family before his exile. Both paintings are created using watercolour in tempera on handmade paper and are part of the National Museum collection in Delhi. The first painting emphasizes Radha's ideal feminine beauty, while the second illustrates the emotional drama of Rama's farewell to his family.

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RADHA (Bani-Thani)

Name of the painting- Radha (Bani-Thani)

Name of the artist- Nihal Chand

Circa- 1760

Sub-school kishangarh

Medium- Water colour in tempra on hand made paper

Collection- National Museum, Delhi

Radha(Bani-Thani) is a highily stylised portrait of Radha. Her face is elongated, receding


forehead. She has sharp pointed nose and chin with long wagtailed eyes ( Khanjan Pakshi)
slightly tinged with pink, arch like eyebrows and thin red lips. Her long black curly hair flows
down her shoulder to her waist and wisp of hair partly falling on her [Link] long tapering
fingers of the left hand is holding two lotus buds. The left hand is so exquisitely drawn that it
can fairly be compared with the right hand of Monalisa. She is delicately holding the edge of
her odhni with her right hand, palm slightly tinged with red. Her odhni is decorated with
golden motif and her dress and jewellery reflect the taste and costumes of contemporary
Rajput Royalty. Radha's odhini is painted to look transparent to reveal the whiteness of her
marble white skin. The background is painted in dark blue.

Her smile is supposedly enigmatic, her eyes reflect the ideal feminine beauty of classical
Sanskrit Literature. She is painted as an ideal of Indian womanhood and can easily be
compared to Monalisa .

A postal stamp was issued by the Govt. of India on which 'Radha of Kishangarh ' was shown.
Bharat meets Rama at Chitrakut

Name of the painting- Bharat meets Rama at chitrakut

Name of the artist- Guman

Circa- 18th century

Sub-school jaipur

Medium- Water colour in tempra on hand made paper

Collection- National Museum, Delhi

The painting 'Bharat Meets Rama at Chitrakuta' from Ramayana theme executed under the
patronage of Sawai Pratap Singh. There are all together forty nine figures put in separate
groups, bring to light the separate episodes in the drama of trying to take Rama back to
Ayodha. In the right lower corner, Rama listens to vishwamitra of his father's death and
loses

consciousness, in the next picture on the lower left Rama listens to ascetics and falls at their
feet possibly asking forgiveness for showing weakness.

The next picture is in upper set. In the middle, Rama meets his mothers accompanied by
Laxman and sita, begs their forgiveness for refusing to break his word and go back with
[Link] allows Kaushalya to embrace him but sticks to his point of carrying out the
orders of 14 years exile to keep his father's word .Rama touched the feet of mother kaikeyee
begging her forgiveness. Sita on the right hand corner faces her mothers - in- law and
declares her intention of following her husband to exile.

Finally, in the right hand corner of the setting Rama, Laxman, Sita are bidding goodbye to
Bharat, Satrughana, Vishwamitra and their mothers promising that they would come back
after 14 years of exile.

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