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Author	Attributed to Purkhu of Kangra, India
Description	English: The scene depicted is from the Harivamsa, or Genealogy of Hari, a supplement to the Mahabharata dealing with the life of Lord Krishna. Here we see Krishna mounted on Garuda approaching a palace in the clouds, accompanied by his son Pradyumna and Satyaki (Arjuna). Indra, King of the Gods, pictured on his white elephant, confronts him, while courtiers look on from the palace courtyard that floats in the clouds.
Date	between 1800 and 1820 date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium	Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
Dimensions	36 × 49.5 cm (14.1 × 19.4 in)
Object history	Private collection, London collector
Notes	This is one of four main series of paintings that the artist Purkhu and his family appear to have produced between 1800 and 1815. Over a hundred works by Purkhu from the Shiva Purana are now part of the Chandigarh Museum collection but the Harivamsa series has been widely dispersed. The current work can be compared to a similar work depicting the Gods in a celestial palace in the clouds from the Shiva Purana series illustrated in Goswamy and Fischer, cat 167, p. 383. Although a firm attribution of the work is difficult, a distinctive feature of Purkhu's paintings, especially in scenes depicting Gods, is his use of billowing clouds in soft hues of pink, grey, white and black, combined with the more conventional architectural features of walls, turrets, balconies and terraces, pointing at the very least to his collaboration in the work.
Source/Photographer	http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/an-illustration-from-the-harivamsa-krishna-in-com-114-c-nw9426b3t6

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