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A SCHOLAR AND A MUSICIAN IN A LANDSCAPE
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A SCHOLAR AND A MUSICIAN IN A LANDSCAPE

MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A SCHOLAR AND A MUSICIAN IN A LANDSCAPE
MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper, the scholar in white robes and turban sits, a cord binding his knees to him, while a musician in white cap playing a sitar sits beside him beneath a tree, with city on a hill in the distance, mounted on an 18th century album page with gold lattice and floral decoration, good condition, mounted and glazed
Miniature 7 x 4 3/8in. (17.6 x 11.2cm.); Folio 22 x 13¾in. (55.9 x 34.6cm.)
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Lot Essay

The two figures sit on a platform before a landscape with a distinctly European feel, especially in the architecture. Each of these features finds parallels in a painting of four mullahs in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, attributed to Govardhan, circa 1630 (Milo Cleveland Beach, The Great Mogul, Williamstown, 1978, no.43, p.123; Pradtapaditya Pal, Indian Painting, Los Angeles, 1993, no.74, pp.267-9). The faces in the present painting are rather more caricatured than one one associated with that great master but it was possibly painted after a Govardhan original: the Los Angeles painting has been enlarged on all sides, before which its dimensions would have been almost identical to those of the present miniature.

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