
Dora Tan
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Seated on a white marble terrace, a content prince smiles, seemingly enjoying his own company, unmoved by the maiden beckoning his attention from an upper balcony. The low candles and the sky's soft grey hue evoking dawn suggest he might have spent all night in his thoughts.
The soft line of the prince's profile and the three-quarter profile of the maiden are characteristic of work attributed to Fattu, who is famed for his Bihari Sat Sai series (Francesca Galloway, Pahari Paintings From The Eva And Konrad Seitz Collection, 2017 p.20, no.10). Also compare the rendering of the cushions, hookah, and marble balustrade in a folio of a 'Princess Listening to Music' in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (IS.146-1953; possibly misattributed to c.1810-20). The scene also shares a similar niche frame, subtle crease in the curtain tie above, and background trees.
Provenance:
Collection of Asbjorn Lunde (1927-2017), New York, by 1988