著录:出版 W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, Baghal, p. 4, no. 2iii. W.G. Archer, Visions of Courtly India: The Archer Collection of Pahari Miniatures, Washington, D.C., 1976, pp. 4-5, no. 2. 拍品描述:展览 “Visions of Courtly India: The Archer Collection of Pahari Miniatures,” 1976-1978 at University Art Museum, Austin, Des Moines Art Center, Seattle Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Institute for the Arts, Houston, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, Denver Art Museum, Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, and Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile. The Ragamala, or garland of melodies, is a cycle of paintings each of which represents a specific musical mode associated with a time of day and a season. While the visual representations can vary greatly, a certain degree of iconographic consistency can allow the raga to be identified. Vilavali Ragini is represented by a lady in a pavilion offering a lotus to a small child. The present painting comes from an obscure painting tradition at Arki, the capital of the Baghal state nearby Hindur and Bilaspur. Little is known on the history of the state, and relatively few works survive from Arki compared to its neighboring Pahari schools. Many of the known works stem from the present ragamala series, marked by its flat and angular architecture, distinct physiognomy, and full planes of color. Another work from this series is published in W.G. Archer, Visions of Courtly India: The Archer Collection of Pahari Miniatures, Washington, D.C., 1976, pp. 6-7, no. 3. Additional folios from this series can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 2022.244), the Cleveland Museum of Art (acc. no. 2018.88), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (acc. no. 1983-156-2), and the Howard Hodgkin Collection (Ashmolean no. LI118.87). A folio from the Paul F. Walter collection sold at Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2002, lot 58; another folio from the Sven Ghalin collection sold at Sotheby's London, 6 October 2015, lot 86.