King Suratha and Samadhi

DateLate 18 century

MediumOpaque watercolors and gold on paper

DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches (18.7 x 25.7 cm);
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 1/8 inches (21 × 28.3 cm)

CultureIndian

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineAcquired through the Herbert F. Johnson, Class of 1922, Endowment

Terms

Paintings
Opaque watercolor
Animals
Birds
Bodies of water
Cats
Communication
Costume
Dwellings
Earrings
Eggs
Fires
Headgear
Hills
Huts
Jewelry
Kings
Leopards
Lotus flowers
Lotus leaves
Peacocks
Ponds
Reptiles
Robes
Scabbards
Serpents
Snakes
Swords
Trees
Turbans
Weapons
Paper
dark blue border

Object number87.006

Label CopyKing Suratha meets Samadhi who, like the king, had been ousted from his home. They are seen in conversation on the left, while on the right, separated from them by trees, sits the sage Medhas preaching to a disciple outside his hermitage. The lions sit in perfect amity with the humans and a peacock in the forest scene.

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