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NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY CHAMBA, CIRCA 1765
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A PATRON ENTICED BY HIS LOVER
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY CHAMBA, CIRCA 1765
A couple seated on a charpoy with a lavish yellow and blue textile with gold highlights, she wearing an orange veil and reclining slightly against a large cushion, he with a long white beard and pink turban pleasuring himself, set on terrace covered with a red carpet against the blue background with three flowering shrubs, framed by a cusped arch with rolled orange curtain and surrounded by blue floral and pink-specked salmon margins
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
8¾ x 6¾ in. (22.2 x 17.2 cm.), painting
10 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.6 x 19.9 cm.), folio
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY CHAMBA, CIRCA 1765
A couple seated on a charpoy with a lavish yellow and blue textile with gold highlights, she wearing an orange veil and reclining slightly against a large cushion, he with a long white beard and pink turban pleasuring himself, set on terrace covered with a red carpet against the blue background with three flowering shrubs, framed by a cusped arch with rolled orange curtain and surrounded by blue floral and pink-specked salmon margins
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
8¾ x 6¾ in. (22.2 x 17.2 cm.), painting
10 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.6 x 19.9 cm.), folio
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, before 1976
Exhibited
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1976