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INDIA, RAJASTHAN, JODHPHUR, 18TH CENTURY
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A Maharaja playing holi with his courtiers
India, Rajasthan, Jodhphur, 18th century
The king in white untouched by color, seated on a striped carpet against a matching bolster, spraying colored water onto his courtiers with his gold syringe, everyone else with stained clothing bearing silver cylinders of colored water, a group of musicians at lower left, all seated on a white pavilion, their lower limbs lost in the cloud of powdered colors, against a lush landscape with trees, a silver river, and temples on the distant shores, an inscription in the sky above, all surrounded by yellow-ruled blue and red borders
Opaque watercolor on wasli heightened with gold
18¼ x 14¼ in. (46.4 x 36.2 cm.), painting
23 x 19½ in. (58.4 x 49.5 cm.), folio
India, Rajasthan, Jodhphur, 18th century
The king in white untouched by color, seated on a striped carpet against a matching bolster, spraying colored water onto his courtiers with his gold syringe, everyone else with stained clothing bearing silver cylinders of colored water, a group of musicians at lower left, all seated on a white pavilion, their lower limbs lost in the cloud of powdered colors, against a lush landscape with trees, a silver river, and temples on the distant shores, an inscription in the sky above, all surrounded by yellow-ruled blue and red borders
Opaque watercolor on wasli heightened with gold
18¼ x 14¼ in. (46.4 x 36.2 cm.), painting
23 x 19½ in. (58.4 x 49.5 cm.), folio
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1980s
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