Légende

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana in the forest, c1652. (Forest dwellers and a hunter). Men and women gather in front of a small house by a river - quivers of arrows hang from the roof. Laksmana hunts for deer on Rama's instructions, so that they may make offerings to the presiding deities of the place. Laksmana cooks the venison on skewers rather than boiling it as in the text and Rama makes the offerings. Sahib Din, again contrary to the text, depicts the two brothers eating while Sita waves a scarf over the food; and she then retires to the hut to eat her own meal. This picture demonstrates the format used by Sahib Din for a forest landscape, with a river at the foot of the picture, a foreground surrounded by trees where the action takes place and a backdrop of vertically striated purple rocks. From the Mewar Ramayana.

Date

1713

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A14_384

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (3,8Mo) / 49,6cm x 25,2cm / 5856 x 2982 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature forest exterior outdoors river animal tree building food female women woman people male library man men India religious Indian plant plants arts painting rocks rock bird birds country religion guy cooking cookery fire weapon weapons geography color hunting hunter hut deity God Hinduism war meat location century wound literature barbecue concept kebab kebabs riverbank barbeque British Library bow and arrow BBQ al fresco wounded warfare 17th century Colour weaponry fanning venison Rama trees seventeenth century geographical feature Hindoostan Lakshmana Ramayana Sita outside manuscript Sahibdin Heritage Art Laxmana