Live Auction 15785The Collection of Paul F. Walter
An Illustration from the BAGHAVATA PURANA
Lot 255

An Illustration from the BAGHAVATA PURANA

INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BIKANER, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Closed27 September 2017

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An Illustration from the BAGHAVATA PURANA
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BIKANER, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
A couple facing two Brahmins across a fire, surrounded by musicians, two female attendants beneath a pavilion
Opaque pigments on paper
6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (16.9 x 24.5 cm.)

84.114: New York Art Market, March 1984.
Offered at Sotheby's New York, Important Indian Miniatures from the Paul F. Walter Collection, 14 November 2002, lot 9.

Specialist note

This scene depicts the marriage between Devaki and Vasudeva, who is dressed in white with an elaborate headdress. The couple, surrounded by attendant figures and musicians, is brought before a fire over which the brahmin priest sprinkles ghee as part of the ceremony's rituals. Compare the palette and the rendering of the figures and architecture with an earlier example, also from the Bhagavata Purana series, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2002.176).