The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
Auction Closed
October 25, 12:38 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache and gold on paper, signed at lower edge "raqam-i bandieh be ikhlas nadir al-zaman” ('work of the sincerest slave the wonder of the age'), gold-flecked blue and green borders
miniature: 9.5 by 5.2cm. (3¾ by 2⅙ in.)
with borders: 25.3 by 16cm. (10 by 6 ⁵⁄₁₆ in.)
With Charles Ratton (1897-1986), Paris, before 1963
Acquired by Cary Welch from Charles Ratton by 1963
S.C. Welch, The Art of Mughal India, New York, 1963, no.31
K. Khandalavala, 'Some Problems of Mughal Painting', Lalit Kala Akademie, no.11, 1965, p.13
M.C. Beach, The Grand Mogul, Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660, Williamstown, MA., 1978, no.28, pp.87-88
M. C. Beach, 'The Mughal Painter Abu’l Hasan and Some English Sources for his Style' Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, Vol.38, 1980, pp.14, 20, fig.7
N. Patnaik, A Second Paradise, Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947, New York, 1985, no.6, pp.49, 179-180
S.C. Welch, An Imperial Vision: The Art of Mughal India 1526-1658, Harvard, 1992, fig.4
S.P. Verma, Mughal Painters and Their Works, Biographical Survey and Comprehensive Catalogue, Delhi, 1994, p.49, no.7
M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.15, pp.62-65
The Art of Mughal India, The Asia House Gallery, New York, 1964
The Grand Mogul, Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Asia House Gallery, New York, 1978-79
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1983
An Imperial Vision: The Art of Mughal India 1526-1658, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Harvard University, 1992
The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Colby Museum of Art, Maine, 2020
