Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- Mid–18th century
- Dimensions
- 29.7 × 20 cm (10 1/2 × 6 3/8 in.)
- Origin
- Kota
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Everett McNear Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Love Both · 98%
The title identifies a heroine running to meet her lover, and the image presents a woman moving through the landscape toward a pavilion containing another figure.
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Implied Narrative Both · 96%
The title establishes a narrative situation, while the image shows connected figures, a destination, and directional movement through the vegetation.
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Movement Visual · 96%
The central female figure has a lifted leg and flowing garments that create a clear impression of hurried forward movement.
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Figures in Nature Visual · 99%
Human figures are embedded within a densely rendered landscape of trees, shrubs, leaves, and flowering plants.
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Flora Visual · 99%
Vegetation occupies most of the composition and is rendered with numerous differentiated leaves, plants, and blossoms.
Visual Qualities
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Dark Colors Visual · 95%
Deep greens, grays, and blacks dominate the landscape and sky, contrasted with yellow, white, red, and gold accents.
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Highly Detailed Visual · 98%
The image contains extensive fine patterning and detail in the foliage, architecture, figures, garments, jewelry, and border.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum metadata classifies the work as a painting and identifies opaque watercolor and gold on wove paper as its medium.
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Watercolor Metadata · 99%
Opaque watercolor is explicitly identified in the museum medium description.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated to the mid-18th century, approximately 1725–1775.
Geographic Regions
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Indian Art Metadata · 98%
The work originated in Kota, Rajasthan, and is identified in the metadata as South Asian.
Materials
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Gold Metadata · 98%
Gold is explicitly included in the cataloged medium, and gold-colored highlights are visible in the figures and architectural details.
Source & rights
anonymous. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/131858
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 2,038 × 3,000 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed