LOT 148 A large painting from a Bhagavata Purana series, depicting the battle of the Gods, with Vishnu riding on Garuda, Siva on the bull, outside a burning city, Brahma, Indra and other gods observing from the clouds Nepal, late 18th Century
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375 x 546 mm.
A large painting from a Bhagavata Purana series, depicting the battle of the Gods, with Vishnu riding on Garuda, Siva on the bull, outside a burning city, Brahma, Indra and other gods observing from the clouds Nepal, late 18th Century
gouache on paper, extensive inscription in nagari script in lower red border, numbered 137 in upper left border 375 x 546 mm.
|ProvenanceThe collection of Jeffrey Paley.Christie's, Important Islamic and Indian Miniatures and Manuscripts, 24th April 1980, lot 114.PublishedMartin Lerner, Indian Miniatures from the Jeffrey Paley Collection, New York 1974, no. 28.Exhibited:Indian Miniatures from the Jeffrey Paley Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, August 6-September 30, 1974.Paintings such as this were produced in Nepal for extensive series of illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana: more than one hundred paintings dealt with Book 10. The influence of central Indian painting has been suggested, though that of Guler is more likely, as Pal argues. For comparative examples, see, for instance, Sotheby's New York, The Carter Burden Collection of Indian Paintings, 27th March 1991, lots 16-19; P. Pal, Art of Nepal, Los Angeles 1985, pp. 228-229, no. P35; and Simon Ray, Indian and Islamic Works of Art, November 2008, no. 65.
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