An illustration from a Ramayana series: Ram and Lakshmana plead with King Dasharatha
Mewar, 1700-1710gouache and gold on paper, text panel at top with two lines of text in nagari script on a yellow ground, numbered 58 from Book III of the Tulsi Ramayana, red outer border
264 x 421 mm.FootnotesProvenance
Private collection, California.
Other folios from this vast Ramayana series can be found in the Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.142) and the Cincinnati Art Museum (see Walker & Smart, Pride of the Princes, Cincinnati, 1985, no. 28). Another is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M86.345.3), formerly in the Paul Walter Collection (see P. Pal, The Classical Tradition in Rajput Painting, Los Angeles 1978, pp. 100-101, no. 27). Ten pages are in the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena. Eleven more are in the Ducrot Collection (see Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting, Torino, 2009, pp. 43-48, nos. ME 18-ME 28). A further page from this series is published in Hussein-Okada, Ramayana by Valmiki: illustrated with Indian painting from the 16th to the 19th century, 2011, p. 29. Finally, six were sold at Bonhams, New York, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, 19th March 2012, lots 1205 & 1206, and 17th March 2014, lots 118-21.
An illustration from a Ramayana series: Ram and Lakshmana plead with King Dasharatha
Mewar, 1700-1710gouache and gold on paper, text panel at top with two lines of text in nagari script on a yellow ground, numbered 58 from Book III of the Tulsi Ramayana, red outer border
264 x 421 mm.FootnotesProvenance
Private collection, California.
Other folios from this vast Ramayana series can be found in the Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.142) and the Cincinnati Art Museum (see Walker & Smart, Pride of the Princes, Cincinnati, 1985, no. 28). Another is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M86.345.3), formerly in the Paul Walter Collection (see P. Pal, The Classical Tradition in Rajput Painting, Los Angeles 1978, pp. 100-101, no. 27). Ten pages are in the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena. Eleven more are in the Ducrot Collection (see Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting, Torino, 2009, pp. 43-48, nos. ME 18-ME 28). A further page from this series is published in Hussein-Okada, Ramayana by Valmiki: illustrated with Indian painting from the 16th to the 19th century, 2011, p. 29. Finally, six were sold at Bonhams, New York, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, 19th March 2012, lots 1205 & 1206, and 17th March 2014, lots 118-21.
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