16 août 2016
"The Great Festivity (Maha Utsav): Six Figures Celebrate with Music and Dance", ca. 1610, India, Rajasthan
"The Great Festivity (Maha Utsav): Six Figures Celebrate with Music and Dance," Folio from the "Early Bikaner" Bhagavata Purana (The Ancient Story of God), ca. 1610, India, Rajasthan, probably kingdom of Bikaner. Opaque watercolor on paper. Page: H. 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm) W. 11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm) Painting: H. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm) W. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Promised Gift of the Kronos Collections, 2015 © 2000–2016 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This work is exhibited in the "Divine Pleasures: Painting from India's Rajput Courts—The Kronos Collections" exhibition, on view through September 12th, 2016 at The Met Fifth Avenue.
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