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ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE RASRAJ OF MATIRAM SERIES
DATIA, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1820-40 DATIA, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1770
Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, corners fxed to mount Opaque watercolor heightened with gold and silver on paper, the reverse with
Painting 9æ x 15 ¬ in. (24.7 x 37.2 cm.); folio12Ω x 17 ¡ in. (37.1 x 44 cm.) an old collection label stamp numbered 66
Painting 10¬ x 6√ in. (27 x 17.5 cm.); folio 11æ x 8æ in. (x 30 x 22.1 cm.)
$3,000-5,000
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 14 December 1979, lot 85.
Two paintings from the same series were recently exhibited by Simon Ray
(catalogue, 2017, nos. 36 and 37). The catalogue entry by Jeremiah Losty gives
The painting depicts Raja Reshal Dev worshipping in various locations, shown
details of the work and the original commission, and notes a further example
by diferent interlocking panels. It is probably from the end of the eleventh
in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (inv.no.72.2.3).
book of the Bhagavata Purana.
The translation of the inscripion found on the verso reads artist studio /
The series is discussed by Konrad Seitz Orchha, Datia, Panna: Miniaturen von
den rajputischen Höfen Bundelkhands 1580-1820, Sammlung Eva und Konrad no. 66 / Datia state .
Seitz, vol. II, Cologne, 2015, nos. 61.1-61.2. A further example was sold in our
London saleroom 5 May 1977, lot 158.
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