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Princely assembly during the Basant Panchami festival
Luckno…
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143
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Princely assembly during the Basant Panchami festival
Luckno…
See original version (French)
Estimate €5,000 - €7,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Princely assembly during the Basant Panchami festival
Lucknow, North India, 19th century
Opaque pigments on paper
35 x 48 cm (13.8 x 18.9 in.)
Provenance :
Former Nantes collection.
Under a large red canopy with gold fringe stretched out in front of a palace facade with white arcades, an Awadh nawab is surrounded by courtiers, dignitaries and servants; to the left, musicians and dancers entertain the party; guards armed with rifles frame the scene; in the background, a landscape of wooded hills and a lake stretches out under a pale blue sky. The dominant yellow of the costumes is the emblematic colour of Basant Panchami, the festival of spring and of the goddess Saraswati, celebrated at the heart of the cold season.
A Lucknow school painting of a princely assembly at the Basant Panchami festival, opaque pigments on paper, North India, 19th century
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