Two paintings from a dispersed Ragamala series: Kanada and Vasanta Ragas

INDIA, AMBER, CIRCA 1710

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Two paintings from a dispersed Ragamala series: Kanada and Vasanta Ragas
India, Amber, circa 1710
The first with two princes meeting another prince and his companion, the second with a woman standing on a platform outside a palace and holding a fan, looking back over her shoulder towards a group of musicians, with attendants before her; both in an enclosed garden with trees visible beyond the palace walls, a panel with text at the top, surrounded by a silver floral border
Opaque pigments, gold and silver on paper
10 x 6 in. (27.3 x 17.1 cm.), central panel
16 x 11 7/8 in. (40.6 x 30.2 cm.), folio (2)

Provenance

Collection of Ariane Dandois, Paris, acquired in Europe between 1973-1975

Lot Essay

For further description of the ragas and comparable works, some also from Amber, see K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, 1973, p. 58, p. 83, fig. C29 and p. 252, fig. 227. A nearly identical painting of the Vasanta Ragini, coming from the Bickford Collection, was sold at Christie's New York on 19 March 2013, lot 274.

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