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NORTH INDIA, PAHARI REGION, PROBABLY MID 19TH CENTURY
Details
TWO SKETCHES
North India, Pahari Region, Probably Mid 19th century
The first depicting a couple on a terrace observing a landscape with a river and a forest, an aesthetic and a female follower, possibly Rama and Sita depicted in the lower right corner; the second sketch partly colored with a man trying to prevent a lady from leaving his covered pavilion, with a further lady standing in a doorway in the left margin
Pen, ink and pigments on paper
8 x 8½ in. (20.3 x 21.5 cm.), the larger (2)
North India, Pahari Region, Probably Mid 19th century
The first depicting a couple on a terrace observing a landscape with a river and a forest, an aesthetic and a female follower, possibly Rama and Sita depicted in the lower right corner; the second sketch partly colored with a man trying to prevent a lady from leaving his covered pavilion, with a further lady standing in a doorway in the left margin
Pen, ink and pigments on paper
8 x 8½ in. (20.3 x 21.5 cm.), the larger (2)
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, late 1960s or early 1970s