5'x3' Oil on Canvas. Recreation of the original (circa 1898).

This painting by Raja Ravi Varma of a lady in a red saree carrying a tray of fruit formed the exemplar for printing a chromolithograph titled 'Madri' from the Ravi Varma Press. In Chapter 13 of the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata, Madri is described as a very beautiful woman of dark form and draped in crimson silk.

It is believed that Raja derived his inspiration for this painting from the 15th Century Venetian artist Titien - "Girl with Fruit Plate."

Raja Ravi Varma's works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. Especially, he was notable for making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public, which greatly enhanced his reach and influence as a painter and public figure. His lithographs increased the involvement of common people with fine arts and defined artistic tastes among the common people.

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