A LEAF FROM THE DISPERSED 'PALAM' BHAGAVATA PURANA DELHI-AGRA AREA, CIRCA 1520-40

A sakhi brings a message from Radha to Krishna. Krishna requests the gopis for an audience with Radha.
29 by 19.5 cm.

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Germany.

CATALOGUE NOTE
Daniel Ehnbom has defined at least ten anonymous painters contributing to this series of Bhagavata Purana paintings. These are referred to by Ehnbom as Painters A-J. For more on this series, see Sotheby's New York, March 17, 2015, Lot 1110-1112; Edwin Binney 3rd, Rajput Miniatures from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd, Portland, 1968, p.4-5, cat.1c; Daniel Ehnbom, Masters of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana, fig.4, p.77-88 (in M.C. Beach, E. Fischer and B.N. Goswamy, Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1650, Artibus Asiae Sup.48/I,2011); Daniel Ehnbom, An Analysis and Reconstruction of the Dispersed 3 / 6 Bhagavata Purana from the Caurapancasika Group, The University of Chicago, 1984, p.235; and Darielle Mason (ed.) (essay by John Seyller), Intimate Worlds: Indian Painting from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection, Philadelphia, 2001, pp.48-49.