Detail of a Vrikshachari or Varsha Pichwai

Detail from a Vrikshachari or Varsha pichwai, that depicts two pairs of gopis, adorned in richly patterned ghaghras and waving morchhals and chauris on either side of a kadamba tree. This scene is repeated in an ogival composition across the pichwai, that is executed on an indigo ground with the ogivies held together by a floral ornament.

The four gopis are seen as offering tribute to Krishna in his symbolic tree-spirit avatar. While southeast Indian arists typically represented the tree as a kadamba in full bloom, Nathadwara painters tend to portray mango or banana trees.