AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RASIKAPRIYA SERIES

MALWA, INDIA, CIRCA 1650

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RASIKAPRIYA SERIES
MALWA, INDIA, CIRCA 1650
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, two ladies standing on bright red ground and embracing in a tall white pavilion, a dark-skinned boy figure standing in one of the wall niches, possibly baby Krishna, the domed roof with colourful architectural decoration and flanked with makara heads holding yellow flames, surrounded with deer and a monkey, with yellow panels above and below, with white and light red borders, numbered at top, the reverse with 5ll. of black script, flaking and rubbing, mounted
8 1/8 x 7 1/8in. (20.5 x 17.8cm.)

Lot Essay

In this example, the colour and architectural forms can be seen clearly to derive from the early Rajput tradition of the sixteenth century and they soon after became characteristic of Malwa painting (Sven Gahlin, The Courts of India, Paris, 1991, cat.70, p.68-9).
For further discussion on Rasikapriya paintings, see lot 38 and 40.

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