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Lot Essay
According to Kshemakarna’s classification of the ragamala system (see C. Glynn, et al., Ragamala: Paintings from India from the Claudio Moscatelli Collection, London, 2011, pg. 92), the iconography of a man mounting a horse held by a groom is identified as Sindhu or Sindhava putra of Sri Raga. As the identifying inscription in our painting only mentions Sri Raga, it is possible that the inscription is incomplete.
A very similar painting from Bilaspur depicting the same subject is in the collections of the Museum Indische Kunst in Berlin (Ernst and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt, Miniatures of Musical Inspiration, Berlin, 1967, vol.1, pl.66). A folio from the same ragamala series as our painting is illustrated in A. Poster, Realms of Heroism – Indian Paintings at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1994, no. 199, pg. 244.
Another folio from this series sold at Bonhams, New York, 17 March 2014, lot 112.
A very similar painting from Bilaspur depicting the same subject is in the collections of the Museum Indische Kunst in Berlin (Ernst and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt, Miniatures of Musical Inspiration, Berlin, 1967, vol.1, pl.66). A folio from the same ragamala series as our painting is illustrated in A. Poster, Realms of Heroism – Indian Paintings at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1994, no. 199, pg. 244.
Another folio from this series sold at Bonhams, New York, 17 March 2014, lot 112.