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MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
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THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the Virgin Mary wearing a black veil and breastfeeding the Child, his head with a gold nimbus, within a pink medallion, a water-lilly pond below and a walled palace in the background, with attribution to the artist Shaykh Turab in nasta'liq script below, with red and yellow rules and aubergine borders
8 x 5 ½in. (20.4 x 14cm.)
MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the Virgin Mary wearing a black veil and breastfeeding the Child, his head with a gold nimbus, within a pink medallion, a water-lilly pond below and a walled palace in the background, with attribution to the artist Shaykh Turab in nasta'liq script below, with red and yellow rules and aubergine borders
8 x 5 ½in. (20.4 x 14cm.)
Provenance
Lockwood de Forest II (1850-1932), thence Lockwood de Forest III (1896-1949) and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1984)
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