Artist: Raja Ravi Varma
Date: 1897
Museum: The Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation (Bengaluru, India)
Technique: Paper
This sketch shows Draupadi sprawled on the floor, head covered in angst, shame and despair for the painting Draupadi at the court of King Virata. Housed at the Sri Chitra Art Gallery, the Oil on Canvas is a magnificent piece of work in its composition and characters. Much later, this sketch was used by Rama Varma in the work Dasharath Kaikeyi Vilaap, where Kaikeyi is shown fallen on the floor, extracting her pound of flesh as she cunningly coerces King Dasharath into banishing Prince Rama from Ayodhya and crowning her son, Prince Bharath as king.
Artist |
|
|---|---|
Download |
|
Permissions |
Free for non commercial use. See below. |
 |
This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. However - you may not use this image for commercial purposes and you may not alter the image or remove the watermark. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.
|
Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may
not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the
