NAVODHA NAYIKA: THE YOUNG BRIDE BEING LED TO HER HUSBAND

INDIA, RAJASTHAN, JAIPUR, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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NAVODHA NAYIKA: THE YOUNG BRIDE BEING LED TO HER HUSBAND
India, Rajasthan, Jaipur, late 18th century
The lady in turquoise with each arm around a companion following a woman holding a lamp and followed by her fellow women from the zenana, including an older woman, possibly a queen wearing a golden crown, and a young girl holding a bowl, all on a tiled outdoor walkway near the palace walls, a darkened doorway leading to the building on the other side, with a garden and fountain in the foreground
Opaque watercolor on wasli heightened with gold
13½ x 9 7/8 in. (34.2 x 23.7 cm.)

Provenance

Private Collection, America, before 1985
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, late 1990s

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Lot Essay

The bride is described as being submissive and graceful as she with mixed feelings of delight and trepidation is led to her awaiting husband and the advent of married life. It is interesting here to note the range of characters depicted in this scene from the youngest to the oldest members of the zenana or female court. Noble women were usually kept away from the eyes of the general public, so it is a rare sight to see such a range of individual female figures as represented here.

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