Details
Smarana Nayika
Kangra, circa 1780
gouache gold on paper, in a rolling hilly landscape the love-lorn lady wearing yellow with orange scarf smokes a hookah carried by her two female attendants and pensively watches the two white doves at her feet, a water-lily covered stream in the foreground, maroon border, red leaf, (negligible rubbing and staining, minor damage to edges with severe flaking on one side of border)
miniature 8¼ x 5¾in. (21 x 14.5cm.)
folio 11 x 8½in. (27.7 x 21.6cm.)
Kangra, circa 1780
gouache gold on paper, in a rolling hilly landscape the love-lorn lady wearing yellow with orange scarf smokes a hookah carried by her two female attendants and pensively watches the two white doves at her feet, a water-lily covered stream in the foreground, maroon border, red leaf, (negligible rubbing and staining, minor damage to edges with severe flaking on one side of border)
miniature 8¼ x 5¾in. (21 x 14.5cm.)
folio 11 x 8½in. (27.7 x 21.6cm.)
Literature
M.S.Randhawa: Kangra Paintings on Love, New Delhi 1962