A PAINTING FROM A RAGAMALA: KAMOD RAGINI

INDIA, RAJASTHAN, MEWAR, CIRCA 1660

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A PAINTING FROM A RAGAMALA: KAMOD RAGINI
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, MEWAR, CIRCA 1660
A man seated outdoors beneath a canopy holding prayer beads and paying homage to a shivalingam which is adorned with a flower garland and placed on a raised dais with a parasol, a lady with hands held together in prayer standing behind him, set in courtyard with a large tree containing birds, a palace to the right with a lady preparing the bedchamber, the dark-blue sky with thin colorful clouds, a yellow header with an inscription set inside wide red margins
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
9¾ x 7¾ in. (24.7 x 19.6 cm.), painting
11 3/8 x 9¼ in. (28.9 x 23.4 cm.), folio

Provenance

Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1970s

Lot Essay

A Mewari Ragamala painting from Jodhpur dated slightly earlier than the present painting is in the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art, illustrated in Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, Exhibition Catalogue, British Museum, London, 2009, p. 54.

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