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Jayadeva's Gita Govinda illustration. Krishna in a bowyer with Radha, and sakhi - maidservant. In the trees to the top right, Kama - like Cupid - aims his arrow athe couple. Uses continuous narrative convention [same figures shown at different moments]. Rajasthan, Mewar. Circa 1720. Flaking and losses throughout. Large format: height 27cm; width 43cm.

The Mewari Gita Govinda was started in the late 17th and completed in the early 18th century. It is in three sets comprising hundreds of paintings, intended to be viewed one after the other, like loose pages of a book. Two hundred and thirty five are in the Government Museum, Udaipur. One hundred, between the first and second sets, have been dispersed. This painting conforms in subject, style and format to the second set, of which seventy two are in the aformentioned museum.