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Shrinathji in a Shrine Flanked by Worshipers

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At the center of the image is a shrine with a life-size idol of Shrinathji, a form of the Hindu god Krishna, who himself is the eighth avatar of Vishnu. Shrinathji is depicted with his iconic dark blue skin and pose. He wears a crown topped with a large peacock fan; rings, a nose ring, bracelets, armlets, long strands of pearls that reach his ankles, a large, long garland that hits the floor, a wide orange and red skirt, and orange trousers. His left arm is raised about his head. He holds in his right hand a long-stemmed flower with two buds. Flanking the shrine on each side is a worshipper. A female worshipper stands on the right. She wears a blue dress with a yellow shawl that covers her head and runs down almost to the hem of her skirt. On the left is a male worshipper. He wears a red shirt with red trousers. The style in which the painting is executed, with the yellow and white dots, was a popular local idiom that also parallels textile patterns in the area of Nathadwara.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art [Popli Brothers] Apollo Bunder Road Bombay (Mumbai) (December 29 1953). Purchase by L.C. and P. Wyman American couple; gift to Art Complex Museum 189 Alden Street Duxbury (1960s); purchase by Kathy Burton Jones [Norman Hurst] Hurst Gallery 53 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge (2004); gift to Harvard Art Museum (2009). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Katherine Burton Jones
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Title: Shrinathji in a Shrine Flanked by Worshipers
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At the center of the image is a shrine with a life-size idol of Shrinathji, a form of the Hindu god Krishna, who himself is the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
Shrinathji is depicted with his iconic dark blue skin and pose.
He wears a crown topped with a large peacock fan; rings, a nose ring, bracelets, armlets, long strands of pearls that reach his ankles, a large, long garland that hits the floor, a wide orange and red skirt, and orange trousers.
His left arm is raised about his head.
He holds in his right hand a long-stemmed flower with two buds.
Flanking the shrine on each side is a worshipper.
A female worshipper stands on the right.
She wears a blue dress with a yellow shawl that covers her head and runs down almost to the hem of her skirt.
On the left is a male worshipper.
He wears a red shirt with red trousers.
The style in which the painting is executed, with the yellow and white dots, was a popular local idiom that also parallels textile patterns in the area of Nathadwara.

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