PROBABLY ORCCHA OR MALWA, CENTRAL INDIA, INDIA, CIRCA 1640

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PROBABLY ORCCHA OR MALWA, CENTRAL INDIA, INDIA, CIRCA 1640
An illustration to a Rasikapriya of Keshav Das, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within white borders and black rules, numbered '261' above in red, pink margins, the verso with 7ll. black devanagari, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 7 x 5 7/8in. (17.8 x 15cm.); folio 8 ¼ x 6 7/8in. (21 x 17.4cm.)

Provenance

Collection of Françoise and Claude Bourelier, Paris, sold Artcurial, Paris, 4 November 2014, lot 222

Engraved

On the verso, Rasikapriya, XIII, v. 11

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Lot Essay

This illustration comes from a large dispersed Rasikapriya of the mid-17th century. A large group of 37 paintings from the series are published in Konrad Seitz, Orchha, Datia, Panna, Malwa Miniaturen von den rajputischen Höfen Bundelkhands 1580-1850, Hanstein Verlag, Köln, 2015, pp.132-211, nos. 5.1-5.37. Although the series is usually attributed to Malwa, Seitz attributes it to Orchha in Bundelkhand where it is thought Keshav Das composed the Rasikapriya in 1591.

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