GURANCHAM RAGINI

SIGNED SITALDAS, LUCKNOW, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1780

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GURANCHAM RAGINI
SIGNED SITALDAS, LUCKNOW, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1780
An illustration to a Ragamala series, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a couple locked in an embrace sit on a covered terrace lit with candlelight, possibly an interpretation of Dipak Raga
Painting 7 7/8 x 6 7/8in. (20 x 17.5cm.); folio 12¾ x 9in. (32.5 x 23cm.)

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The artist Sitaldas signed illustrated Ragamala folios previously in the Douce Collection, now held in the Bodleian Library, (MS. Douce Or. b.2.f.44 and 45); Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, Paris and New Delhi, 1973, no. 96, p. 214. Sitaldas is recorded as having worked for Richard Johnson in circa 1780. See the previous lot for a discussion on the related Johnson Ragamala.