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Ladies Bathing on a Terrace
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- Ladies Bathing on a Terrace
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image 10 5/8 by 6 5/8 in. (27 by 16.8 cm)
- folio 12 5/8 by 8 3/4 in. (32.2 by 22.2 cm) unframed
Two beauties dip their feet in a shallow pool on an open terrace set by Gundaloo Lake with puffy swan-like white clouds in the middle ground and a boat plying the waters of the lake in the distance.
While the delicately painted, idealized 'Kishangarh faces' are instantly recognizable, the juxtaposition between abstract and geometric compositional elements is noteworthy. The terraced lakeside setting with an extensive landscape vista in the receding background is another Kishangarh hallmark.
For another illustration depicting a lady and her attendants in similar lakeside environs, see W. G. Archer, Rajput Miniatures from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd, Portland, no. 25, p. 41.
While the delicately painted, idealized 'Kishangarh faces' are instantly recognizable, the juxtaposition between abstract and geometric compositional elements is noteworthy. The terraced lakeside setting with an extensive landscape vista in the receding background is another Kishangarh hallmark.
For another illustration depicting a lady and her attendants in similar lakeside environs, see W. G. Archer, Rajput Miniatures from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd, Portland, no. 25, p. 41.