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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 378

AN ILLUSTRATION TO A BHAGAVATA PUR ANA SERIES: THE EXCHANGE OF THE BABIES, INDIA ,
GULER, CIRCA 1760-1765
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK CITY COLLECTION
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: THE EXCHANGE OF THE BABIES
INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1760-1765

Attributed to Fattu, eldest son of Manaku

Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold

image: 10 ¼ by 14 ⅞ in. (26 by 37.8 cm)

folio: 11 ¾ by 16 in. (29.8 by 40.6 cm)

Provenance
Mrs. F. K. Smith, Sotheby's London, February 3, 1960, lot 2
New York Collection, acquired 1968

Catalogue Note
This large-scale illustration depicts the exchange of the babies orchestrated by Krishna’s father Vasudeva soon after the birth of
Krishna, his eighth child – decreed by divine prophecy to be the vanquisher of Vasudeva’s foe the evil king Kamsa. On the right we
see Vasudeva laying the blue-skinned baby Krishna swaddled in a saffron cloth by the side of Yashodha, wife of his cousin Nanda,
who is asleep after having delivered a baby girl. Vasudeva is seen carrying the child, wrapped in a soft yellow blanket, from Gokula

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