INDIA, RAJASTHAN, SIROHI, CIRCA 1680

Details

A Folio from a Ragamala Series: Dhanasari Ragini
India, Rajasthan, Sirohi, circa 1680
Depicting a woman seated on a terrace in a pavillion engaged in painting and flanked on both sides by female attendants with flowering tree at right, framed by red-orange borders and inscribed in Devanagari at top
Folio: 8 x 5¾ in. (20.3 x 14.7 cm.)

Literature

J.L. Davidson, Art of the Indian Subcontinent from Los Angeles Collections, 1968, illus no. 115

Exhibited

Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, Art of the Indian Subcontinent from Los Angeles Collections, 1968; Previously on loan to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972-1974

Special notice

This lot is offered subject to a reserve, which is the confidential minimum price below which the lot will not be sold.

Lot Essay

Cf. K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, 1973, p.87; The Arts if India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, 1966, no. 163; S. Lee, Rajput Painting, 1960, no.53; an W.G. Archer, Indian Miniatures, 1960, no. 41, for other paintings from the series.

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