Illustration of a Ragamala, Kedara Ragini, the ascetic's aud - Lot 182

Illustration of a Ragamala, Kedara Ragini, the ascetic's audience, North India, Amber or Jaipur, second half of the 18th century Gouache, gold and silver on cardboard depicting a night scene on a terrace framed by two pavilions. On the terrace sits an ascetic wearing a high bun, in discussion with a turbaned prince kneeling before him, in the presence of servants, one holding the prince's arms, the other two fanning the protagonists with morshal flywhiskers. At the foot of the staircase leading to the terrace, a musician plays the sarod and a page guards the prince's mount, whose forelegs rest on the first step of the staircase. Mounted on an album page with a wide red margin numbered 36 at the top. Painting size: 24.4 x 16.8 cm; page size: 33.3 x 25.5 cm A few polychromatic shifts and small stains, wear in the margin at the lower left corner, which has been glued back in place. Provenance : Sotheby's sale, London, December 10, 1974, lot 76. This page presents a composition very close to a page preserved at the Art Institute of Chicago (1962.147.36) attributed to Jaipur, circa 1745-70. Paris private collection, lots 166 to 193.