LIBERATION OF GAJENDRA (GAJENDRA MOKSHA)
Bikaner, 1625
Provenance:
Jane Greenough Green
Cynthia Hazen Polsky
A PAINTING FROM A BARAMASA SERIES - THE MONTH OF MAGHA (JANUARY/FEBRUARY)
Gouache and gold on wasli
Garhwal
c.1780-90
Painting: 19 x 14 cm; Folio: 25 x 19.06 cm
Provenance: W.G and M. Archer, c. 1960
Published: Archer, W.G. Visions of Courtly India: The Archer Collection of Pahari India. Washington: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1976 pg. 26, pl. 15; Archer, W.G., Bhattacharya, Love Songs of Vidyapati. New York: Grove Press, 1963. Pl. 1; Mildred Archer and W.G. Archer, Wildenstein. Romance and Poetry in Indian Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Indian Miniatures, 1963, pl 51; Archer, W.G. Pahari Miniatures: A Concise History, 1975, col. Pl 37; From the Collection of Mildred and W. G. Archer. London: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co, Ltd., 1965 pl. 51
Other Folios from this Series: V&A, British Museum, National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, Pvt. Collection, Germany.
