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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE NEW YORK CITY EXHIBITED The painting bears a fragmentary ink inscription
COLLECTOR at the top reading “...ram.” A number of the
Pleasure Gardens of the Mind: Indian Paintings
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A BHAGAVATA from the Jane Greenough Green Collection, Los folios from this series are inscribed in ink with
PURANA SERIES: NANDA AND Angeles County Museum of Art, March 11-June two names “Nana” and “Mithiram” which had
YASHODHA EMBRACE KRISHNA 13, 1993. previously been thought by some scholars to be
WHILE BALARAMA AND OTHERS This lively and tender painting belongs to the well- the names of the two artists collaborating on the
series. However subsequent analysis by Daniel
LOOK ON known important pre-Mughal Bhagavata Purana Ehnbom has defined at least 10 anonymous
North India, Delhi, Agra Area, Circa series circa 1520-40 from the Delhi-Agra area in painters contributing to the series. These are
1520-1540 Northern India which illustrates chapters from referred to by Ehnbom as Painters A-J. The style
Book 10 of the Bhagavata Purana - Divine Tales of of our present painting is most closely comparable
Attributable to Painter “A” the Supreme Lord - depicting the life and exploits with painter “A” perhaps the most significant artist
Opaque watercolor on paper of Krishna in his triumphs of love and battle. of the group, as described by Ehnbom.
folio: 7 by 9¼ in. (17.9 by 23.5 cm.), unframed
image: 5½ by 8⅞ in. (14 by 22.7 cm.) For more information about the series and the
artists who created these works see Daniel
LITERATURE Ehnbom, “Masters of the Dispersed Bhagavata
Pratapaditya Pal, Stephen Markel, Janice Purana”, p.77-88, in M. C. Beach, E. Fischer and
Leoshko, Pleasure Gardens of the Mind: Indian B. N. Goswamy, Masters of Indian Painting 1100-
Paintings from the Jane Greenough Green 1650, Artibus Asiae Sup. 48/I, 2011. Also see
Collection, Los Angeles, 1993, cat. 1B. pp. 22-23, Sotheby’s New York, March 17, 2015, lots 1110,
illustrated. 1111, 1112, 1113 and Sotheby’s New York, March
16, 2016, lots 775, 776, 777.
$ 12,000-18,000 We would like to thank Mitche Kunzman for his
assistance with this entry.
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