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A PRINCESS VISITS A YOGINI
BENGAL, EAST INDIA, CIRCA 1775
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a female ganapati yogini kneels beneath a tree holding prayer beads, beside her a princess makes an offering of a flower garland to a lingam, an attendant stands behind holding a tray of flowers, a lake beyond them, within blue rules on wide red margins, the reverse with a descriptive note in German in a 19th century hand
Painting 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.3 x 20.3cm.); folio 11 1/8 x 9¼in. (28.3 x 23.4cm.)
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The features of our yogini with her three quarter’s profile, rounded full cheeks and slightly flaring nostrils are similar to those found on a figure of Durga on a painting which Linda York Leach attributes to Bengal, circa 1775 (Linda York Leach, Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, vol.II, London, 1995, p.715, cat.6.375).

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