PERHAPS AURANGABAD, DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1720-1740

The beautiful orange-red margins decorated with Mughal-style gold floral motifs relates the present painting to a known Ragamala series which is possibly painted in Aurangabad in the North Deccan. A group of five from the series are in the Museum Rietberg, Zurich (G. Boner, E. Fischer, B.N. Goswamy, Sammlung Alice Boner, Zurich, 1994, nos. 40-4, p.42) and another is published in John Seyller and Konrad Seitz, Mughal and Deccan Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, 2010, pp.136-8, no.46. A further painting was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 16 September 1998, lot 209A which was also published in Masselos, Menzes and Pal, Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, 1997, no.199.