INDIA, MUGHAL, CIRCA 1670

Details

Courtier in a Landscape
India, Mughal, circa 1670
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, the courtier dressed in floral robes facing left and carrying weapons and a black shield
Folio: 9 x 6½ in. (22.9 x 16.5 cm.); image: 7¾ x 5 1/8 in. (1937 x 13 cm.)

Provenance

Jane Greenough Green

Literature

P. Pal, S. Markel and J. Leoshko, Exhibition catalogue, Pleasure Gardens of the Mind: Indian Paintings from the Jane Greenough Green Collection, 1993, p. 128, cat. no. 43.

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, cat. no. 43, March-June 1993.

Lot Essay

According to Pal, et. al., in Pleasure Gardens of the Mind, p. 128, the portrait of the courtier was likely made by a Mughal artist travelling in the Deccan during Aurangzeb's military campaigns in the region. Deccani influences in the painting include a more highly ornamented treatment of flora in the landscape.

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