AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DIPAK RAGA

Good and stable overall condition. Slight abrasion to silver lining on folio margins clearly visible in catalog illustration. Slight abrasions to skin tones on some of the attendant figures and some rubbing to green ground and sky. The color tones are a shade lighter in reality. This lot is exhibited in a temporary frame.
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A red-skinned lord seated in an orange howdah on an elephant accompanied by a retinue of female attendants, preceded by musicians and a dancer. Against a flat green hillside rising to a line of small trees with palaces and blue sky beyond.

In the Amber tradition the iconography of Dipak is associated with the autumn festival of Diwali - the festival of lights.  A very similar composition from Amber, the old capital of Jaipur, is in the Kankroli Collection.  

Refer to Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973 cat. C25, pps. 74-75.