Illustration of a Ragamala, Kedara Ragini, North India, Punj - Lot 167

Illustration of a Ragamala, Kedara Ragini, North India, Punjab Plains, circa 1850 Gouache and gold on paper depicting a yogini with long brown hair, her chest undressed, her legs covered with a pink skirt and positioned cross-legged on a green mat. She is seated in a landscape in front of a cave entrance, metal instruments placed beside her, and a kneeling man dressed in pink blows into an Indian pungi flute facing her. Mounted on an album page with a floral border of gilded rosettes, colored border lines and a wide gold-flecked margin. In the lower margin, a polylobed cartouche inscribed with 7 lines of devanagari in red and black inks on a gilded ground. Framed. Painting size: 13.5 x 9.3 cm; page size: 29.6 x 22.1 cm Two corners trimmed, opposite border missing, a few stains, some gilding and polychromy missing, small accidents and repaints in the floral border. This page is part of the same series and most probably comes from the same album as lot 166. Paris private collection, lots 166 to 193.