Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu
National Museum of Asian Art

Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu

Composition attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1765-1770

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
National Museum of Asian Art
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of Asian Art

Verso: In devanagari gold letters on blue paper, the Sanskrit text is from the Narayana Upanishad of Atharveda. Inscribed in black ink in a different hand: “Majnu te nainsukh ki banai hoi”- (the painting) is (the joint) work of Majnu and Nainsukh/or- Painted by Majnu and Nainsukh/or Done by Majnu and Nainsukh.

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