拍品 55
55
A sleeping ascetic, fragment from a larger miniature
A sleeping ascetic, fragment from a larger miniature

MUGHAL, CIRCA 1640

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A sleeping ascetic, fragment from a larger miniature
Mughal, circa 1640
Depicting a bearded saddhu sleeping upon a rocky surface next to a lion's den, possibly Saint Anthony
4 x 4 in. (9.3 x 10.8 cm.)

拍品專文

See for comparison, Milo Cleveland Beach, Rajput Painting at Bundi and Kotah, fig. 104, for a smaller depiction of Prithvi Singh dated 1888; and Sven Gahlin, The Courts of India: Indian Miniatures from the Collection of the Foundation Custodia, Paris, 1991, no. 67 pl. 66, for a similar rendering of the sky, trees, and water.