THE VIRGIN MARY AND CHILD
A MUGHAL ORIGINAL AFTER A PRINT BY AEGIDIUS SADLER
THE VIRGIN MARY AND CHILD

LUCKNOW, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760

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THE VIRGIN MARY AND CHILD
LUCKNOW, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the Virgin Mary wearing green and orange robes holding the Child in her right arm, attended by a male and a female figure, a table in the lower right corner, a purple curtain above them, laid down on card between thin gilt borders, mounted
Painting 5½ x 4 1/8in. (14.2 x 10.5cm.)

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A closely related composition depicting the Holy Family with an attendant is in the St Petersburg Muraqqa'. Painted in Lucknow, it is also copied from the engraving of Aegidius Sadeler. There was a vigorous revival of European-style pictures with Christian subjects at the court of the Nawabs of Awadh. One of the most popular subjects was another print by Sadeler, The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Two Angels, after a painting by Johann von Aachen. Unlike many others the present painting, as the painting in the St Petersburg Muraqqa', is not an overpainting, but an adaptation of the European model in which Saint Joseph is replaced by a female attendant. The same composition appears to have been repeated in Lucknow and in other provincial centers until the 19th century (Toby Falk, et al, The St. Petersburg Muraqqa', 1996, pl.57, pp.68-69).

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