Christie's London, 4th October 2012 , lot 175.

Art Passages, San Francisco, 2015.

This painting, depicting a nayika sitting alone in a forest clearing playing her vina. and the following lot (lot 545)are part of a ragamala set from Lucknow, c. 1780. Six leaves from this set are in the British Museum, and two in the Bodleian Library. The British Museum paintings are described in Losty's ""The Art of the Book in India", item 110 on page 135, and also referred to in Falk's book on the India Office paintings. The Johnson albums included a set of drawings of ragamalas which were evidently a preliminary or duplicate set for the British Museum paintings, since they match the finished pain🤪tings exactly. The back of each of these paintings has a pencil notation , in French, naming the artists, plus the initials "D de L". They are from the collection of a certain Duc de Luynes formed in the late 18th century.