An Indian portrait of Jagat Singh II; and Nata Ragini from a dispersed ragamala 印度人物画两幅 18th century ????

Opaque watercolors with metallic paints on card; the first depicting the seated Maharana smoking a hookah; the second a mounted female warrior dispatching two foes. Framed and glazed.

H: 10 in.; W: 8 3/4 in.; H: 9 1/2 in.; W: 6 1/2 in.frames: H: 13 1/4 in.; W: 11 3/4 in.; H: 13 1/4 in.; W: 10 in.

NOTE:

The composition of the Nata Ragini relates closely to 17th and 18th century examples from Bundi or Kota studios. Compare the folio, dated circa 1685, from a dispersed ragamala, with other folios located in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, and the Metzger collection, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, sold at Bonham's, New York, September 18, 2013, lot 141. See also the folio, circa 1750, in the Oriental Museum, Durham University, United Kingdom. See also the folio attributed to the Kota workshop of Sheik Taju, circa 1750, from the collection of Nasli M. Heeramaneck, now in the National Gallery of Canada, illustrated in Pratapaditya Pal, "Divine Images Human Visions", Calgary, 1997, p. 52, #45, where the mounted warrior, like the present example, is a woman, as opposed to the other examples where the warrior is male.

PROVENANCE:

Acquired by the grandmother and great aunt of the present owner, who traveled to India frequently in the 1960s

Thence by descent