Lot Essay
For a similar treatment of the garden space with peacocks, see M. Zebrowski, Deccani Painting, 1983, p. 51-52, pl. III-IV.
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INDIA, MUGHAL, CIRCA 1740
Details
A painting of a noble woman in a garden
India, Mughal, circa 1740
Depicting a woman wearing an orange and gold pyjama and diaphanous red odhni printed with gold florettes, abundant jewelry, and one slipper off, seated in a high golden chair and drinking from a diminutive cup, an attendant in a white angarkha before her, in a lush garden with blossoming trees, deer, a peacock and other birds of paradise, all against a spare background within blue and brown borders highlighted with gold
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli
5½ x 8 5/8 in. (14.0 x 21.9 cm.), image
7 x 10 1/8 in. (17.8 x 25.7 cm.), folio
India, Mughal, circa 1740
Depicting a woman wearing an orange and gold pyjama and diaphanous red odhni printed with gold florettes, abundant jewelry, and one slipper off, seated in a high golden chair and drinking from a diminutive cup, an attendant in a white angarkha before her, in a lush garden with blossoming trees, deer, a peacock and other birds of paradise, all against a spare background within blue and brown borders highlighted with gold
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli
5½ x 8 5/8 in. (14.0 x 21.9 cm.), image
7 x 10 1/8 in. (17.8 x 25.7 cm.), folio
Provenance
Private collection, Indiana
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