Illustration to the Bhagavata Purana
Opaque watercolor on paper, North India, Circa 1520-1540
Arranged in three registers showing Krishna and Balarama in discourse at the top, warriors receiving their orders in the middle, and rulers and princesses consulting with priests in the bottom registers.
6 ¾ x 9 in. (17.1 x 22.9 cm)
Arranged in three registers showing Krishna and Balarama in discourse at the top, warriors receiving their orders in the middle, and rulers and princesses consulting with priests in the bottom registers.
6 ¾ x 9 in. (17.1 x 22.9 cm)
Sold for
US$ 23,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Other pages from this series are in the British Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago. For three pages in the Biney Collection, San Diego, see W G Archer, Rajput Miniatures from the Edwin Binney III Collection, Portland, 1968, nos. 1a-c. For pages with a similar three register format page see the Ludwig Habighorst Collection, Museum Rietberg Zürich, Collection of Horst Metzger (see Masters of Indian Painting: 1100-1900 and Sotheby's, New York, December 15, 1978, lot 73
Provenance:
Private Collection
Acquired from Doris Wiener in the 1980s
Category: Asian Art / Southeast Asian, Indian and Himalayan Art
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