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

Reference: ART3005228

Krishna watches his mother Yashoda churning butter and requests her to let him eat it.
27 by 16.5 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 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.