Lot 280
Hindol raga: Krishna in a swing, surrounded by four female attendants and musicians Oudh, circa 1760-70
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£8,000 - £12,000
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Hindol raga: Krishna in a swing, surrounded by four female attendants and musicians
Oudh, circa 1760-70
Oudh, circa 1760-70
gouache and gold on paper laid down on an album page with inner borders with gold floral motifs on light pink and dark blue grounds, gold-sprinkled outer borders with a light brown ground; verso, a calligraphic composition, North India, 17th-18th Century, consisting of six lines of text written horizontally in nasta'liq script in black ink on a grey-green ground within cloudbands on a gold ground, brown inner border, inner margins ruled in colours and gold
painting 194 x 131 mm.; calligraphic composition 154 x 77 mm.; album page 451 x 310 mm.
painting 194 x 131 mm.; calligraphic composition 154 x 77 mm.; album page 451 x 310 mm.
Footnotes
For a very similar depiction of the same subject, signed by the artist Fath Chand, see Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Indian and Persian Court Painting, New York 2018, no. 20. This was one of a series of thirty-six ragamala paintings completed by Fath Chand and Faqirallah. There are six female attendants to our four, but the composition is strikingly similar, with the maidens performing the same functions in the same poses,
The text of the calligraphic composition has not been identified. It relates to hair and its significance and quality (soft, thick, where on the body, on the back, on shoulders or chest). The smaller text at lower left, resembling a signature, appears to be a catchword.