Sacred Art & Iconography
Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.14)
Folio, workshop of Nainsukh, India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of Kangra, ca. 1780, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1976.14
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A folio from a dispersed Ramayana series, "Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra," from the workshop of Nainsukh, India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of Kangra, ca. 1780, depicting the princes protecting the sage Vishvamitra's forest sacrifice from demons. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 1976.14, Asian Art department, Seymour Fund, 1976.
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Attributed ToNainsukh, active circa 1710 to 1778, is among the most celebrated painters of the Pahari hill state courts, closely associated with the court of Balwant Singh of Jasrota, whose daily life he painted with an unusually naturalistic eye; after his death his sons and workshop carried his style forward, and this folio's workshop attribution reflects that continuing family lineage across the Kangra and Guler courts. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Lakshmana directly: "a dispersed Ramayana series, "Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra," from the workshop of Nainsukh, India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of Kangra, ca."
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The Met's own title for this folio names the subject outright, "...Assist the Sage Vishvamitra," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
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