Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu

Composition attributed to Nainsukh Painting attributed to Manju

1770

Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Styles

Painting

Tags

South Asian and Himalayan ArtCatherine and Ralph Benkaim CollectionVishnuArt

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Verso: In devanagari gold letters on blue paper, the Sanskrit text is from the Narayana Upanishad of Atharveda. Inscribed in black ink in a different hand: “Majnu te nainsukh ki banai hoi”- (the painting) is (the joint) work of Majnu and Nainsukh/or- Painted by Majnu and Nainsukh/or Done by Majnu and Nainsukh.