INDIA, KISHANGARH, CIRCA 1735

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A Lady Breastfeeding an Infant
India, Kishangarh, circa 1735
Seated on a low throne with a bolster for support, wearing a floral lengha and pink choli and diaphanous purple odhini printed with gold motifs, pearl and emerald jewelry abundant and her forehead smeared with turmeric, cradling the infant in her lap
Ink, opaque and transparent pigments, and gold, on paper
12 x 8¼ in. (30 x 21 cm.), excluding borders

Lot Essay

The present and next works are examples of highly finished large-scale drawings with delicately applied color that are characteristic of the Kishangarh atelier prior to the 1740s. Compare with A Lady Playing the Tanpura at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1996.100.1); see Kossak, Indian Court Painting: 16th-19th Century, 1997, p. 96, cat. no. 57.

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