Raja Ravi Varma · 1898
Shakuntala Writing a Love Letter
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Shakuntala, the sage's foster daughter from Kalidasa's play, gazes upward composing a love letter to King Dushyanta to be pricked onto the lotus leaf she holds, while a companion watches and a spotted doe rests at her side. A later version of a theme Ravi Varma first painted in 1878. Ganesh Shivaswamy Foundation, Bengaluru.
Up to 16 × 20.8 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Shakuntala Writing a Love Letter
Shakuntala or Shakuntala looking for Dushyanta is an 1898 epic painting by Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. He greatly enhanced his reach and influence as a painter and public figure by making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public. His lithographs increased the involvement of common people with fine arts and defined artistic tastes. Furthermore, his religious depictions of Hindu deities and works from Indian epic poetry and Puranas have received critical acclaim. He was part of the royal family of Parappanad, Malappuram district.
All Raja Ravi Varma prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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