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AN OPENING FOLIO OF A POLIER ALBUM
COLONEL POLIER'S NAUTCH
SIGNED BY MIHR CHAND, FAIZABAD, INDIA, PROBABLY 1774-75
細節
COLONEL POLIER'S NAUTCH
SIGNED BY MIHR CHAND, FAIZABAD, INDIA, PROBABLY 1774-75
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, signed by the artist beneath the sofa, laid down on navy blue and applied buff borders illuminated with silver and gold foliate motifs, verso with large gold and polychrome illuminated shamsa, in illuminated navy blue frame with colourful floral sprays, the white margins similarly decorated with floral sprays, in applied narrow navy-blue borders decorated with gold and silver flowering vine, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 7 ½ x 11 1⁄8 in. (18.9 x 28.2cm.); folio 11 ¼ x 15 ½in. (28.7 x 39.4cm.)
SIGNED BY MIHR CHAND, FAIZABAD, INDIA, PROBABLY 1774-75
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, signed by the artist beneath the sofa, laid down on navy blue and applied buff borders illuminated with silver and gold foliate motifs, verso with large gold and polychrome illuminated shamsa, in illuminated navy blue frame with colourful floral sprays, the white margins similarly decorated with floral sprays, in applied narrow navy-blue borders decorated with gold and silver flowering vine, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 7 ½ x 11 1⁄8 in. (18.9 x 28.2cm.); folio 11 ¼ x 15 ½in. (28.7 x 39.4cm.)
來源
Colonel Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier (1741-95)
Howell and Stewart Bookseller, 295 Holborn, London, before 1834
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872), acquired from Howell and Stewart in 1834
Sotheby's London, Bibliotheca Phillippica, 27 November 1974, lot 723
Howell and Stewart Bookseller, 295 Holborn, London, before 1834
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872), acquired from Howell and Stewart in 1834
Sotheby's London, Bibliotheca Phillippica, 27 November 1974, lot 723
出版
S.C. Welch, Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, New York, 1978, no.34, pp.84-5
A. Welch and S.C. Welch, Arts of the Islamic Book - The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Ithaca, 1982, no.79, pp.233-4
B. Goswamy and E. Fischer, Wonders of a Golden Age, Zurich, 1987, no.106, pp. 212-3
M. Beach, The New Cambridge History of India, 1:3, Mughal and Rajput Painting, Cambridge, 1992, fig.173, p.222
J. Boye (ed.), L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Benoit de Boigne aux Indes, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chambéry, 1996, p.73
P. Nevile, Nautch Girls of India, Dancers, Singers, Playmates, New Delhi, 1996, p.154
S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.138, p.180-1
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.138, p. 180-1
W. Dalrymple, White Mughals, London, 2002, col.pl.3
P. Brugière and J. Bor, Gloire des princes, louange des dieux, Patrimoine musical de l'Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle, Paris, 2003, p.169, fig.100
M. Alam and S. Alavi, A European Experience of the Mughal Orient, The I'jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Polier, Delhi, 2008, cover ill.
J. Losty, "Towards a New Naturalism, Portraiture in Murshidabad and Avadh, 1750-80", in B. Schmitz (ed.), After the Great Mughals, Painting in Delhi and the Regional Courts in the 18th and 19th Century, Marg, Mumbai, vol.53, No.4, June 2002, pp.51-4, fig.17
J. Kuntz, Switzerland, How an Alpine pass became a country, Geneva, 2008, p. 58
M. Roy, "Origins of the Late Mughal Painting Tradition in Awadh", in S. Markel and T. Gude (eds.), The Art of Courtly Lucknow, India's Fabled City, Los Angeles, 2010, fig.26, p.180
T. McInerny, “The patronage of Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and the work and influence of his principal court artists”, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 79, No. 1, 2019, p.72, fig.30
B. Veyrassat, De l’attirance à l’expérience de l’Inde: un Vaudois à la marge du colonialisme anglais, Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier (1741–1795), Neuchatel, 2022, pp.107-108, fig.9
S. Chattopadhyay, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire, London, 2023, pp. 163-4, 358, pl. 17
A. Welch and S.C. Welch, Arts of the Islamic Book - The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Ithaca, 1982, no.79, pp.233-4
B. Goswamy and E. Fischer, Wonders of a Golden Age, Zurich, 1987, no.106, pp. 212-3
M. Beach, The New Cambridge History of India, 1:3, Mughal and Rajput Painting, Cambridge, 1992, fig.173, p.222
J. Boye (ed.), L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Benoit de Boigne aux Indes, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Chambéry, 1996, p.73
P. Nevile, Nautch Girls of India, Dancers, Singers, Playmates, New Delhi, 1996, p.154
S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.138, p.180-1
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.138, p. 180-1
W. Dalrymple, White Mughals, London, 2002, col.pl.3
P. Brugière and J. Bor, Gloire des princes, louange des dieux, Patrimoine musical de l'Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle, Paris, 2003, p.169, fig.100
M. Alam and S. Alavi, A European Experience of the Mughal Orient, The I'jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Polier, Delhi, 2008, cover ill.
J. Losty, "Towards a New Naturalism, Portraiture in Murshidabad and Avadh, 1750-80", in B. Schmitz (ed.), After the Great Mughals, Painting in Delhi and the Regional Courts in the 18th and 19th Century, Marg, Mumbai, vol.53, No.4, June 2002, pp.51-4, fig.17
J. Kuntz, Switzerland, How an Alpine pass became a country, Geneva, 2008, p. 58
M. Roy, "Origins of the Late Mughal Painting Tradition in Awadh", in S. Markel and T. Gude (eds.), The Art of Courtly Lucknow, India's Fabled City, Los Angeles, 2010, fig.26, p.180
T. McInerny, “The patronage of Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and the work and influence of his principal court artists”, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 79, No. 1, 2019, p.72, fig.30
B. Veyrassat, De l’attirance à l’expérience de l’Inde: un Vaudois à la marge du colonialisme anglais, Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier (1741–1795), Neuchatel, 2022, pp.107-108, fig.9
S. Chattopadhyay, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire, London, 2023, pp. 163-4, 358, pl. 17
展覽
Arts of the Islamic Book, Asia Society, New York; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, 1982-3
Wonders of a Golden Age, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1987
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
Wonders of a Golden Age, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1987
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
刻印
The signature below the sofa reads, 'The work of Mihr Chand, son of Ganga Ram'
榮譽呈獻
Sara Plumbly
Director, Head of Department
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