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Arjuna and Draupadi

Painting
ca. 1885 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Kolkata (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Arjuna shooting at the eye of a fish to obtain Draupadi in marriage.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Hinduism
Myths & Legends
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleArjuna and Draupadi (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paint
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, Arjuna and Draupadi, opaque watercolour on paper, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1885
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Arjuna shooting at the eye of a fish to obtain Draupadi in marriage.
Content description
Arjuna shooting at the eye of a fish to obtain Draupadi in marriage.
Style
Kalighat Painting
Marks and inscriptions
  • (handwritten on object)
    Translation
    'the wedding tournament for Draupadi'
    Transliteration
    'draupadir svayambar'
  • 'Urjoona hitting with an arrow the eye of a fish placed above in the air for handing the hand of Dampadi - such being the condition of the marriage.' (inscription on old mount card)
Object history
Acquired from Miss M Steele, being part of the collection inherited from her mother, a scholar in Sanskrit at Cambridge in 1894. When delivering the pictures, Miss Steele reported that her grandmother had also lived in India for some time and that it was possible that the pictures were originally collected by her.
Subjects depicted
Competition
Prince
Princess
Arjuna
Draupadi
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, W G: 'Kalighat Paintings', V&A, 1971, p70, 25xxxi
  • Sinha, Suhashini, and Panda, C, eds. Kalighat Paintings from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2012. ISBN 1851776656. p. 60
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.564-1950

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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