A noblewoman seated on a terrace listening to music Mughal, circa 1730-40
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A noblewoman seated on a terrace listening to music
Mughal, circa 1730-40
gouache, gold and silver on paper, laid down on an album page with brown borders, nasta'liq inscription in upper border; verso, a stylised floral composition depicting a iris surrounded by bees, a jackal and a cockerel, green and pink outer borders, nasta'liq inscription in pink border
painting 230 x 165 mm.; album page 299 x 212 mm.
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Provenance
Originally from an album put together in Lucknow in the 1780s.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), Ms. 26074.
Sotheby's, Bibliotheca Phillippica, Part IV, 26th November 1968, lot 332 (unillustrated).
Formerly in the collection of Francoise and Claude Bourelier, Paris.
The inscriptions read:
Recto: padshahzadi-ye dara shikuh, 'Royal daughter of Dara Shikuh' (incorrect) and numbered 57.
Verso, in Urdu: kali sosan, 'black iris', and numbered 58.
Ladies amusing themselves on terraces became one of the standard compositions of Mughal artists in the 18th Century, with certain figures producing the prototypes for copies or variations on their compositions. See for example, a work by Anup Chattar, circa 1710 (illustrated in J. P. Losty and M. Roy, Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, London 2012, pp. 182-183, fig. 123); and by Dalchand, circa 1710, in the C. Polsky collection, New York (illustrated and discussed in T. McInerney, 'Dalchand', in M. C. Beach, E. Fischer, and B. N. Goswamy, Masters of Indian Painting, Zürich 2011, p. 567, fig. 1). Works such as these laid the groundwork early in the century and many other artists copied their images or made variations on them.
Mughal, circa 1730-40
gouache, gold and silver on paper, laid down on an album page with brown borders, nasta'liq inscription in upper border; verso, a stylised floral composition depicting a iris surrounded by bees, a jackal and a cockerel, green and pink outer borders, nasta'liq inscription in pink border
painting 230 x 165 mm.; album page 299 x 212 mm.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Originally from an album put together in Lucknow in the 1780s.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), Ms. 26074.
Sotheby's, Bibliotheca Phillippica, Part IV, 26th November 1968, lot 332 (unillustrated).
Formerly in the collection of Francoise and Claude Bourelier, Paris.
The inscriptions read:
Recto: padshahzadi-ye dara shikuh, 'Royal daughter of Dara Shikuh' (incorrect) and numbered 57.
Verso, in Urdu: kali sosan, 'black iris', and numbered 58.
Ladies amusing themselves on terraces became one of the standard compositions of Mughal artists in the 18th Century, with certain figures producing the prototypes for copies or variations on their compositions. See for example, a work by Anup Chattar, circa 1710 (illustrated in J. P. Losty and M. Roy, Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, London 2012, pp. 182-183, fig. 123); and by Dalchand, circa 1710, in the C. Polsky collection, New York (illustrated and discussed in T. McInerney, 'Dalchand', in M. C. Beach, E. Fischer, and B. N. Goswamy, Masters of Indian Painting, Zürich 2011, p. 567, fig. 1). Works such as these laid the groundwork early in the century and many other artists copied their images or made variations on them.
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A noblewoman seated on a terrace listening to music Mughal, circa 1730-40
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