ID 828653
Lot 64 | A PRINCE CONVERSES WITH A SAGE
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 100 000
ATTRIBUTED TO GOVARDHAN, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1605
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper set between black and gold rules, a strip of plain paper above and below, mounted in later pink paper margins, the reverse with Mughal royal library stamps
Painting 6 x 3 1/2in. (15.2 x 8.8cm.); folio 8 1/2 x 5 3/8in. (21.8 x 13.7cm.)
Literature
J. Bautze in C. P. Haase, J. Kröger, U. Linert. Morgenländische Pracht - Islamische Kunst aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Edition Temmen, Hamburg 1993, p.264, pl.186.
L. V. Habighorst, Blumen - Bäume - Göttergärten in indischen Miniaturen, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2010, p.106, pl.75.
L. V. Habighorst, 'Hierarchy and Models. Some Notes on Shaiks in Mughal Painting' in U. Bhatia, A. N. Khanna and V. Sharma, The Diverse World of Indian Painting, Aryan Books, New Delhi, 2009, p. 31, pl.4.1.
J. Seyller, 'Govardhan', in M. C. Beach, E. Fischer and B.N. Goswamy (eds.), Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1650, Artibus Asiae Publishers, Zürich, Suppl. 48, 2011, p.357-374, fig.10.
Exhibited
Islamische Kunst aus deutschen Privatbesitz, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 18 June-22 August 1993.
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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