Lot 57
KRISHNA TENDING TO A CALF WITH THE GOPIS NEARBY ‡
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, POSSIBLY BIKANER, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 10 December 2025 from 14:00 GMT
Description
gouache and gold on paper, mounted on to an album page with sprinkled inner grey border and gold floral and navy blue outer border, depicting the enlightened Krishna tending to a calf admiring a gopi standing on a terrace on the right, who appears to be in charge of storing the milk, further gopis in the background including two carrying pots, within a green and wooded landscape, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
21.3cm x 28cm
Provenance
Collection Friederich Sarre (1865-1945); thence by descent; Auktionshaus Rotherbaum, Hamburg, 122. Weihnachts Auktion, 12 December 2020, lot 449.
The collection of a German enthusiast.
Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre (1865 - 1945) was a German Orientalist, archaeologist, and art historian known for his extensive collection of Islamic art. Sarre also traveled widely throughout the Middle East, collecting artworks - particularly from Persia and Constantinople. His collection was first exhibited in Berlin in 1899 and later in Paris at the Exposition des arts musulmans (1903). He donated most of these works to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, where he served as director of the Islamic Department from 1921 to 1931.