AN ILLUSTRATION TO A BIHARI SATSAI SERIES


MEWAR, CIRCA 1719Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; two lines of Devanagari in the top register and numbered '367'. Image: 7 1/4 x 7 in. (18.3 x 17.7 cm);Folio: 9 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. (25 x 21.5 cm)
|The painting depicts five nobles in discussion, each redolent of Amar Singh II's likeness, before a lake crammed with lilies, waterfowl, and fish. For comparative example, see Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur, Zurich, 2001, pp.143-4, no.144. A closely related composition sold at Artcurial, Paris, 12 May 2015, lot 269. Others sold at Bonhams, London, 6 October 2008, lot 390, Sotheby's, New York, 28 October 1991, lot 229 and Pundoles, Mumbai, 12 March 2014, lot 31. Published Ludwig Habighorst, Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2011, p.130, fig.100. Exhibited Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Völkerkunde-Museum, Hamburg, 17 March - 27 October 2013. Provenance Private Collection, Germany