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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM AND MILDRED ARCHER
An Illustration to the Sat Sai of Bihari, Krishna and Radha in a townscape at night, Garhwal or Sirmer (Nahan), North India, circa 1800, opaque pigments on paper heightened with gold, mounted, glazed and framed, 30 x 24cm.
Provenance: Private Collection W.G. and Mildred Archer and thence by descent
The Sat Sai is best known for a well-published series painted in Kangra dated circa 1785 which was originally in the Tehri-Garhwal Collection (see M.S. Randhawa, Kangra Paintings of the Bihari Sat Sai, National Museum, New Delhi, Bombay, 1966). There was a set of paintings from Garhwal which includes this example. Other paintings from this set, dated between 1790 and 1800 are published in W.G. Archer, Visions of Courtly India, Oxford, 1976, cat.20, pp.34-35; Karl Khandalavala, Pahari Miniature Paintings in the N.C. Mehta Collection, Ahmedabad, fig. 102; Rajput Miniatures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, Portland, 1968, cat.89, p.115 and in Ivan Stchoukine, La Peinture Indienne à l'Epoque des Grand Moghols, Paris, 1929, pl.C.
The oval format of these paintings originate from Guler and becomes widespread in the late 18th century, with increasingly complex decoration in the corners. Kangra or Guler artists very probably moved to Garhwal around that time.
*Please note this work will be sold without the frame
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