Shantanu and Matsyagandha by Ravi Varma Press Print (18×24)

Fine Art Reproduction Print (Museum-Grade Archival Print) Artist / Date Raja Ravi Varma Press | 1890 | Oleograph on Paper | Maharashtra Key Features This warmly intimate and narratively pivotal composition presents Shantanu and Matsyagandha...
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Shantanu and Matsyagandha by Ravi Varma Press Print (18×24)

Shantanu and Matsyagandha by Ravi Varma Press Print (18×24)

Rs.2,100.00

Shantanu and Matsyagandha by Ravi Varma Press Print (18×24)

Rs.2,100.00
Frame style: Unframed
Fine Art Reproduction Print (Museum-Grade Archival Print)
Artist / Date Raja Ravi Varma Press | 1890 | Oleograph on Paper | Maharashtra

Key Features

This warmly intimate and narratively pivotal composition presents Shantanu and Matsyagandha - the encounter between King Shantanu of Hastinapura and Satyavati the fisherwoman - one of the most consequential romantic meetings in the entire Mahabharata tradition, depicted by the Ravi Varma Press with the characteristic combination of emotional warmth and compositional directness that made their narrative oleographs the most beloved popular sacred art in late nineteenth century India. The painting shows Shantanu - in his full royal regalia of red court garments, gold jewelry, and crowned turban - seated on the river bank beside a boat, reaching out to touch Satyavati's shoulder in the first gesture of a desire that will reshape the entire dynastic history of Hastinapura. Satyavati stands with her oar, her expression carrying the particular quality of a woman who is simultaneously flattered, amused, and completely in control of the negotiation she knows is about to begin.

The composition's warm golden palette - the ochre landscape, the golden sky, the sandy river bank - gives the entire scene the quality of memory held in amber, as though the painting understands that this moment is being depicted from the far end of its own enormous consequences. For what appears here as a simple meeting between a king and a fisherwoman on a river bank is in fact the first domino in the sequence that will produce Bhishma's terrible vow, the Kuru succession crisis, the births of the Pandavas and Kauravas, and ultimately the catastrophic war of Kurukshetra itself. Ravi Varma renders none of this - he shows only the moment itself, in its complete human ordinariness, leaving the viewer who knows the story to feel the full weight of what is being set in motion in this golden, intimate, completely unassuming afternoon encounter.

Museum-Grade Poster Details

  • Size: 18 × 24 inches
  • Paper: 350 GSM archival matte paper
  • Print Quality: High-resolution reproduction preserving the warm golden palette, the royal regalia detail, the river bank setting, and the full chromatic richness of the original oleograph
  • Finish: Non-glare museum matte finish
  • Ideal For: Mahabharata devotees, collectors of Ravi Varma Press works, lovers of Indian narrative painting, home and gallery spaces, and anyone drawn to the moment when the most consequential love story in the entire Indian epic tradition begins in the complete simplicity of a king and a fisherwoman on a river bank

Why You'll Love It

Warmly intimate and historically momentous - Ravi Varma's Shantanu and Matsyagandha is the most quietly consequential of all his Mahabharata compositions, the painting that shows the entire epic's origin in a single golden afternoon meeting whose full weight is felt only by those who know where this riverbank conversation leads.

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Bring home Shantanu and Matsyagandha - the Ravi Varma Press's 1890 masterwork of the Mahabharata's founding romantic encounter, available as an 18 × 24 inch museum-grade archival print, with framed and unframed options, exclusively at The Soma Store.

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