Observe the image and answer the following question. |
Among the following Museums where this particular painting has been preserved. |
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Bihar Museum, Patna National Museum, New Delhi Kala Bhawan, Kolkata |
National Museum, New Delhi |
The correct answer is Option (3) → National Museum, New Delhi This is Bani Thani painting by Nihal Chand. Bani Thani was Sawant Singh’s muse for the poetry he wrote, celebrating the love of Radha and Krishna. He writes about her in a poem Bihari Jas Chandrika, which became the basis for Nihal chand’s painting of Bani Thani, thus, representing a blending of poetry and painting. Troubled by fratricidal conflict, Sawant Singh, eventually, abdicated the throne in 1757 and retired to Vrindavan along with Bani Thani. |