Indian Rajput Miniature Painting Depicting the Life of Krishna From the Mahabharata, Framed

Four figures sit on a lavender floor before a dark doorway, and the conversation seems to be going well.

This framed Rajput miniature painting depicting the life of Krishna from the Mahabharata comes from N.W. India and dates to the 18th century. It is ink on paper. Manuscript pages from northern India often paired a painted scene with lines of devotional text above. Seven lines of script fill the upper half. Below, a blue-skinned figure in yellow sits with a crowned companion, a bearded man in white and a woman in a red veil, beneath an arched pavilion. Green velvet and a gilt and black frame surround it. It is 8.5 inches wide and 11.38 high.

A whole conversation, held on less than a page.