KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1830

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A LADY RECEIVING MUSICIANS AT HER HOUSE
KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1830
Gouache with gold on paper, depicting a lady welcoming musicians in a courtyard while her older companion converses with a priest inside the house, within red rules and narrow dark blue border comprising gold scrolling floral vine
Painting: 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ in. (24.6 x 19.5 cm.)
Folio: 10 ½ x 8 ½ in. (26.9 x 21.6 cm.)

Provenance

Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the estate of the above, September 1955.

Literature

R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, p. 302, no. 231.

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Lot Essay

In his note on the present painting Toby Falk comments that while it is clearly mainly in the Kangra style, by this stage influence from other centres is visible; he detects that of Jaipur in the treatment of the tulsi plant leaves in the foreground and in the use of gold in the detailing on the façade of the house.

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