Lot 205
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RADHA AND KRISHNA COURTING
AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM THE RASIKAPRIYA OF KESHAV DAS
RADHA AND KRISHNA COURTING

ATTRIBUTED TO USTAD QASIM SON OF AHMAD, BIKANER, NORTH INDIA, DATED VAISAKA VS 1819/1762-63 AD

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RADHA AND KRISHNA COURTING
ATTRIBUTED TO USTAD QASIM SON OF AHMAD, BIKANER, NORTH INDIA, DATED VAISAKA VS 1819/1762-63 AD
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a blue skinned Krishna wearing a gold crown is depicted in various poses with Radha, with 4ll. of devanagri above, set on wide red margins with yellow outer rules, the reverse with the date and attribution to the artist in devanagri, traces of collection stamps in purple ink, partially erased, left and right margins restored
Painting 7¾ x 4 7/8in. (19.4 x 12.3cm.); folio 10½ x 7 5/8in. (26.4 x 19.2cm.)

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Ustad Qasim was probably part of the third generation after the famous Umarani Usta painter Rukn al-Din. This dynasty of painters flourished in Bikaner for many generations. Unusually for Rajput painting many of the works by members of this dynasty are attributed to individual artists and dated. For a discussion on Rukn al-Din and the following generations of the Umarani Usta line of painters see Andrew Topsfield (ed.), Court Painting in Rajasthan, Mumbai, 2000, pp.61-63. For an unsigned painting from the same Rasikapriya series see Pramod Chandra, Indian Art Treasures: Suresh Neotia Collection, Varanasi 2006, fig. 104, p. 149.

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