INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BIKANER, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

An Illustration from the BAGHAVATA PURANA
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BIKANER, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
A couple facing two Brahmins across a fire, surrounded by musicians, two female attendants beneath a pavilion
Opaque pigments on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (16.9 x 24.5 cm.)

Provenance

84.114: New York Art Market, March 1984.
Offered at Sotheby's New York, Important Indian Miniatures from the Paul F. Walter Collection, 14 November 2002, lot 9.

Lot Essay

This scene depicts the marriage between Devaki and Vasudeva, who is dressed in white with an elaborate headdress. The couple, surrounded by attendant figures and musicians, is brought before a fire over which the brahmin priest sprinkles ghee as part of the ceremony's rituals. Compare the palette and the rendering of the figures and architecture with an earlier example, also from the Bhagavata Purana series, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2002.176).

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