
Mark Rasmussen
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Expressive and poignant, this painting centers on a youthful maiden who has just taken leave of plucking her tanpura and gestures upward with her left arm, singing a song of woe due to the absence of her lover. She laments how her fastidiously prepared bedchamber above will go unused. A small fountain bubbles forlornly in the courtyard while the blazing sun equates with burning desire.
Other pages of this Deccani series can be found in various institutions and private collections, including five in the Rietberg Museum (see Boner et al., Sammlung Alice Boner, Zurich, 1994, nos.40-4) and one published in Masselos et al., Dancing the Flute, Sydney, 1996, no.199. For a page formerly in the Seitz Collection, see Seyller, Mughal and Deccani Paintings, Zurich, 2010, p.136. A further page was sold at Bonhams, New York, 11 September 2012, lot 77.
Published
Anna Dallapiccola, Princesses et courtisanes à travers les miniatures indiennes, Galerie Marco Polo, Paris, 1978, p.62, no.52
Provenance
Galerie Marco Polo, Paris, 1978
Private Swiss Collection, 1978-2012
Francesca Galloway, London, 2012