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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED WEST COAST COLLECTION
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A PORTRAIT OF A LADY HOLDING A LOTUS
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, KISHANGARH, MID 18TH CENTURY
6 x 4º in. (15.2 x 10.8 cm.)
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired from Dr. William Ehrenfeld, San Francisco, by repute.
Romantic portraits of beauties are a favored subject of the Kishangarh style,
both subject and style deriving from the classical Mughal ateliers. In the
present painting, the sensitively drawn woman stands in profile at the foot of
a hill, holding a lotus in her left hand. The Kishangarh princely state rises from
the hillock in a distance.

The verses on the back of the painting translate as:

The radiant joy of union with the Lord
Is like a mouthful of the nector of the moon.

In the union of Vishnu and Shiva
Is mark of the seal of goodness.

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