Live Auction 16723The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Travel and Americana
A LADY RECEIVING MUSICIANS AT HER HOUSE
Lot 1013

A LADY RECEIVING MUSICIANS AT HER HOUSE

KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1830

Closed10 May 2018

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A LADY RECEIVING MUSICIANS AT HER HOUSE
KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1830
Gouache with gold on paper, depicting a lady welcoming musicians in a courtyard while her older companion converses with a priest inside the house, within red rules and narrow dark blue border comprising gold scrolling floral vine
Painting: 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ in. (24.6 x 19.5 cm.)
Folio: 10 ½ x 8 ½ in. (26.9 x 21.6 cm.)

Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the estate of the above, September 1955.

Specialist note

In his note on the present painting Toby Falk comments that while it is clearly mainly in the Kangra style, by this stage influence from other centres is visible; he detects that of Jaipur in the treatment of the tulsi plant leaves in the foreground and in the use of gold in the detailing on the façade of the house.