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An illustration from a Nayika series
Kangra, circa 1820-30
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; under a dazzling star-filled sky, the nayika forges a path
through the absolute darkness to her lover waiting in the lighted window of the far-off palace.
Image: 8 1/4 x 6 in. (20.9 x 15.2 cm); Folio: 10 1/2 x 8 in.
(26.5 x 20.2 cm)
$5,000 - 8,000

This composition is a variation on the story of Abhisarika Nayika that shows the heroine
enduring the terrors of the night, snakes, and evil spirits.

For a classic example of this type in the Fine Arts Museum, Boston (17.2612), see Cummins,
Indian Paintings: From Cave Temples to the Colonial Period, 2006 p. 103, pl. 53.

Provenance
Cynthia Hazen Polsky Collection
Acquired from William H. Wolff, Inc., 3 April 1973

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