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          TWO PAINTINGS DEPICTING IMPENDING RAIN STORMS    Both  paintings  show  the  excitement  of  the  impending  storm  in  the  monsoon
          KANGRA SCHOOL, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820           season. In the frst the lovers go out onto the upper terrace to watch the clouds
          Lovers on a rooftop watching the approaching storm; a lady on a swing   build, as the thunder snakes down out of the clouds and the distant city is already in
          similarly watching the storm clouds, opaque watercolor heightened with   the midst of the storm. The subject of the second, the lady on a swing, is frequently
          gold and silver on paper, colored margins, mounted framed and glazed  associated with the three-day festival of Teej during the month of Sravana,
          First painting 8Ω x 7Ω in. (21.6 x 19 cm.)       excitedly celebrating the impending monsoon rains. Other Pahari versions of the
          folio 11º x 10 in. (28.7 x 25.4 cm.)             same scene, in increasingly countrifed settings, are in the Victoria and Albert
          second painting 9¿ x 6æ in. (23.3 x 17.1 cm.)
          folio 12¿ x 8¿ in. (30.8 x 20.6 cm.)        (2)   Museum (inv. no. IM.73-1912), in the Jagdish Mittal Collection (John Seyller, Pahari
                                                           Paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad, 2014,
          $20,000-30,000                                   no.104, pp.296-7) and in the Kronos Collection promised gift to the Metropolitan
                                                           Museum of Art, New York (Terence McInerney, Steven M. Kossak and Navina Najat
                                                           Haider, Divine Pleasures, Painting from India’s Rajpuit Courts, The Kronos Collection,
                                                           exhibition catalogue, New York, 2016, no.73, pp.200-201).
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