gouache and gold on paper, yellow panel at top with three lines of text in nagari script, further inscription in red upper border, in mount
253 x 217 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's, Indian and Southeast Asian Art, New York, 4th June 1994, lot 145.

The present lot is part of a series of illustrations to the poet Keshav Das' Rasikapriya, and attributed to Sahibdin, the 17th Century Mewar artist. Sahibdin (circa 1620-1655), a Muslim artist most probably related to the artist Nasiruddin, worked under the patronage of Maharana Karan Singh (reg. 1620-28) and during this time would have been influenced by popular Mughal artists working at Agra, Ajmer or (as suggested by Topsfield) at Udaipur. Sahibdin's importance and illustrious career at the Mewar court continued on and beyond the reign of Maharana Jagat Singh (1628-1652), providing much work for the artist and his studio.

For a full discussion on Sahibdin see:

A. Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur, Zurich 2001, pp. 53-84; also figs. 37 and 38.
For comparison see also:
J. Williams, Kingdom of the Sun, San Francisco 2007, no. 6.

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An illustration to the Rasikapriya: Radha with female attendants seated in a pavilion, Krishna within a grove at a distance Mewar, attributed to Sahibdin, circa 1650

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