An illustration from the Markandeya Purana: the Devas worshipping Durga

NORTH INDIA, GULER, CIRCA 1760

Details

An illustration from the Markandeya Purana: the Devas worshipping Durga
North India, Guler, circa 1760
The four-armed goddess seated on a lotus flower and holding a lotus and conch shell, her lion at her side, the Devas standing before her with hands folded wearing crowns and dhotis, on green ground with light green background, set in wide yellow margins with an inscription above
Opaque watercolor on wasli
6 5/8 x 10¼ in. (16.7 x 26 cm.), painting
7¾ x 11½ in. (19.6 x 29.2 cm.), folio

Provenance

Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, late 1960s

Exhibited

"The Goddess in Indian Art," 27 February - 30 June 1980, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Krasl Art Center, Michigan, 1986

Lot Essay

This series is illustrated in W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, Guler section, no.17 (i and ii); for a similar series but later, dated 1781, see Aijazuddin, Pahari Paintings and Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Museum, 41 (1-xxxiv)

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