
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
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The present page compares favorably with a scene, 'Celebrating with Fireworks', in the San Diego Museum of Art (1990:374), and another sold at Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2012, lot 1172. The faces, proportions, and clothing are almost identical, which suggests they may be from the same atelier.
It would seem likely that the artists responsible for these pages were among the exodus from Delhi to Oudh (Lucknow) in around 1775. For further discussion on the artists and their new European patrons, see Falk & Archer, Indian Miniatures, 1981, p. 136, and Markel & Gude, India's fabled city, Los Angeles, 2010, p. 171-5.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Oregon