PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: KEDARA RAGAPUTRA, INDIA, BILASPUR CIRCA 1750
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIE💮S: KEDARA RAGAPUTRA
INDIA, BILASPUR CIRCA 1750
Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold
image: 8 ½ by 5 in. (21.6 by 12.7 cm)
folio: 10 ⅜ by 6 ⅞ ♏in. (26.4 by 17.5 cm), unframed
Sotheby’s New York, June 4 1994, lot 371
A young lord is attended by ladies and ꦜ;entertain𓆏ed by musicians in an open courtyard before a terraced pavilion.
The inscription above identifies the painting as a depiction of Malkos Raga. For another representation of the same subject, also from Amber and of similar date but with a slightly variant iconography, see K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, pps. 50-51, C13.