TWO EQUESTRIAN PAINTINGS
Lot 47

TWO EQUESTRIAN PAINTINGS

MUGHAL INDIA, 17TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Closed13 July 2016

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GBP 750

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TWO EQUESTRIAN PAINTINGS
MUGHAL INDIA, 17TH AND 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the first depicting a saddled stallion richly bedecked, facing right, an identification inscription in black nasta'liq script reading 'Mahbub' above, within yellow thin margins, with black rules; the second with a saddled white horse facing left; each mounted, framed and glazed
The first 8 ¾ x 6 5/8 in. (22 x 17 cm.); the second 2 3/8 x 3 1/8 in. (6 x 8 cm.) visible

Specialist note

The first saddled stallion appears in Claudio Bravo's paintings Dionysos, 1984 and Caballos, 2001 (Claudio Bravo et le Marco, exh. cat., Paris, 2004, p. 33 and Marlborough Gallery, New York).