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A portrait of "Ramama, the young Indian girl in Victorian dress and ringlets", India, Benares,...
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A portrait of "Ramama, the young Indian girl in Victorian dress and ringlets",
India, Benares,...
Price Realised: £446
Estimate: £400 - £600
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Lot 137
Description
A portrait of "Ramama, the young Indian girl in Victorian dress and ringlets",
India, Benares, dated 1875
Pencil and gouache on paper, unfinished, the verso inscribed in Hindi and in English referring to the Vijainagram estate in Benares and Mahesh Bosad as a possible artist,
Folio 22.4 x 18.4cm
Provenance: Private Collection of William & Mildred Archer, Lyon & Turnbull, 12 June 2024, Lot 148
Mildred Archer's notes in pencil to the reverse of this charming portrait reveal that Ramama means pleasing or beautiful in Sanskrit and that the sitter hailed from a noble Madras family connected to the Vijainagram Estate in Andra P which was part of the same state as Madras until the 1950s. She also notes that another copy of the drawing is in the Varanasi's Bharat Kala Bhavan (Art Institute now a museum) inscribed "Ramama" with a companion picture "Gangama". William and Mildred Archer were connected with the Bhavan founded in the 1920s, mentioned in S. Kramrisch, "Exploring India's Sacred Art".
This painting is clearly unfinished and may have been a prepatory study for a larger painting. This was a common practice of artists working in Bengal seeking commissions from British Company officers.
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