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@ssharadmohhan @CSMVSmumbai @ranjona @DalrympleWill @RaiSwatiRai @vijivenkatesh @swativashishtha @msteckchandani @Chemburstudio @ghosh_gopali @MohdMuzzammilK @Hiranyaa_ @Go_Movie_Mango @hemantsarin @IndiaArtHistory @cherishDcherry1 The sarangi (?) player looked familiar. Is he the same person as in this other famous Nainsukh painting from about 15 years earlier? @britishmuseum
An illustration from the Ramayana
Paithan, #Maharashtra
Mid 19th century
Gouache on paper, 40 x 30 cm
@ChristiesInc
নৃসিংহ | Narasimha
Kalighat, #Kolkata
Watercolour and Tin Alloy on paper
1835-1840
Currently @V_and_A
This is in the elaborate and sophisticated style of the early Kalighat pats.
#NarasimhaJayanti
@RishabPuthran2 @hemantsarin @britishlibrary @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar @ssharadmohhan @Peachtreespeaks @Arthistorian18 @tiwary02 @JAJafri @IndiaArtHistory @gsmgoraya @maiopatti @cherishDcherry1 @kamlesm @Chemburstudio @BishtLokinder @EnrouteH I am reading the book "Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires" by William Pinch. It is probably the best book on this topic and is a gripping read of this fascinating period of Indian History.
Krishna fluting under a Kadamba tree, surrounded by gopis
Gouache on paper
19th century (?)
Can anyone identify the school?
From the dresses this looks like a painting from central India or Maharashtra but I haven't seen any other paintings in this style.
There is also the anonymously penned drama Ājakāra Bājāra Bhau (1873) based on the infamous Tarakeshwar Affair - a scandal that rocked Bengal - involving a sixteen-year-old married girl named Elokeshī and the head priest of a Hindu temple in Tarakeswar.
https://t.co/aADdk3S95W
A plantain (musa balbisiana)
Company School, India or South East Asia
Early 19th century
@Sothebys
Ashta Bhuja Durga
Battles four asuras by herself
Chitrasala Press, Pune, 1920s
#DurgaPuja2021
An Orange-Headed Ground Thrush and a Death's-Head Moth on a Purple Ebony Orchid Branch
Dated 1778, #Kolkata
Opaque watercolor and ink on paper
@metmuseum
Love the details of every flower, bud, leaf, bird, insect. This has to be one of Shaikh Zain Al-Din's greatest paintings.