H x W (overall): 20.1 x 31.4 cm (7 15/16 x 12 3/8 in)
Type:
Painting
Origin:
Bikaner, Rajasthan state, India
Date:
ca. 1700
Court:
Bikaner Court
School/Tradition:
Rajput School
Description:
Detached album folio; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: Princess with attendants; verso: sarlawh, text: Invocation to God and Padishahs, one column, six lines, two seals.
Border: The painting has occupied the full width of the page; the text is set in an illuminated border mounted on cream-colored paper with gold and colorful flowers.
Inscriptions:
Bottom page, seal.
Provenance:
From at least 1934
Albert Besnard, from at least 1934 [1]
To 1942
Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, to 1942 [2]
From 1942 to 1986
Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France [3]
From 1986
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France [4]
Notes:
[1] Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 411.
[2] See Glenn D. Lowry et al., An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 345, no. 416.
[3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
