Shakuntala (Raja Ravi Varma)

Shakuntala or Shakuntala looking for Dushyanta is an epic painting by celebrated Indian painter, Raja Ravi Varma.
Ravi Varma, depicts Shakuntala, an important character of Mahabharata, pretending to remove a thorn from her foot, while actually looking for her husband/lover, Dushyantha, while her friends call her bluff.
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, an art historian, wrote;