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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 23, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | 1003 | $****** - ****** | AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: THE INFANT KRISHNA SLAYS THE DEMONESS PUTANA |
Works on Paper
Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold
Collection of Mr. Gordon H. Mattison, Maryland
The infant Krishna at the breast of the crumpled demoness Putana suckling the life out of her. His mother Yashoda gently pulls at his arm - concerned that Krishna's once beautiful nurse has been transformed and her true identity revealed as a demoness - sent by Krishna's vengeful uncle Kamsa to poison the child. Gopis with Nanda and Balarama look on gesturing with wonder at the sight. A single tree with a sturdy dark trunk and beautifully defined green leaves diagonally frames the scene against a delicate light-blue sky. Dark clouds tinged with crimson recede at the upper right. A refined composition of great clarity and elegance.
This extremely fine miniature is attributable to painters of the workshop of the Seu-Nainsukh family - active primarily at the court of Guler during the generation after Nainsukh in the latter Eighteenth Century. For a further discussion on the history and characteristics of this workshop see B.N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer "The First Generation After Manaku and Nainsukh of Guler" pp. 687 - 718, essay in Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1650, Artibus Asiae, 2015. And for comparisons to some Rajasthani examples of the Putana episode see: Andrew Topsfield, In the Realm of Gods and Kings, London, 2004, pp. 148-149, cat. 57, and Darielle Mason (Ed.), Intimate Worlds: Indian Paintings from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection, Philadelphia 2001, pp. 144-145, cat.57.
Attributed to the workshop of Seu-Nainsukh
unframed
