Keywords: Love Scene Central India (Malwa).jpg en Caption Love Scene Central India Malwa 1660-1680 Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Overall 8 x 6 1/8in 20 3 x 15 6cm Brooklyn Museum Anonymous gift 84 201 3 Label Indian artists produced a small body of erotic imagery for their royal patrons usually in the same courtly styles used for other subjects This scene of lovemaking comes from a series that is painted in the bold minimalist style of the Malwa region Seventeenth-century Malwa paintings almost always feature figures inside a small pavilion with flat decorative elements to one side and below and little or no sense of spatial depth They are like simple stage productions but painted with a sophisticated palette that makes much use of subtle juxtapositions of color Here the hot red of the bed pops against the cool blue of the interior which in turn glows against the black of the night The exuberant flowers might reflect the blossoming of the couple �s passion 1660-1680 http //www brooklynmuseum org/opencollection/labs/splitsecond/painting php id 108 Brooklyn Museum Anonymous gift 84 201 3 PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard 1660s paintings from India 17th-century paintings from India in the Brooklyn Museum 17th-century watercolor paintings from India Paintings of couples having sex Erotic art of India Watercolor paintings of couples of India |