Painting
ca. 1750 - ca. 1770 (made)
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Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a scene from the story of Madhavania and Kamakandala. A musician reclines exhausted on a palace terrace set in a wooded park. His vina lies by his feet and he is being revived by the maidservants of a princess who sits among her attendants in a golden pavilion at the end of the terrace.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper |
| Brief description | Painting, Madhavanla and Kamakandala scene, by Fateh Chand, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, probably Lucknow, ca. 1750-1770 |
| Physical description | Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a scene from the story of Madhavania and Kamakandala. A musician reclines exhausted on a palace terrace set in a wooded park. His vina lies by his feet and he is being revived by the maidservants of a princess who sits among her attendants in a golden pavilion at the end of the terrace. |
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| Content description | A scene from the story of Madhavania and Kamakandala. A musician reclines exhausted on a palace terrace set in a wooded park. His vina lies by his feet and he is being revived by the maidservants of a princess who sits among her attendants in a golden pavilion at the end of the terrace. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'The work of Fateh Chand.' (Inscribed beneath the image, on the gold-flecked mount. ) |
| Object history | 'For other paintings by Fateh Chand which show him to be an 18th century eclectic artist, see Johnson coll. Vol. 22 No. 4 and Vol. 50 No. 1. An example in Shah Jahan period style is reproduced by Rai Krishna Dasa, Mughal Miniatures, Delhi, 1956. An indication that this artist may have been a Lucknow contemporary of the eclectic Mihr Chand is provided by Johnson painting Vol. 40 No. 1 which although in the characteristic style of Mihr Chand, bears an inscription "work of Fateh Chand" which has been crossed through at an early date and replaced with an attribution to Mihr Chand. It seems likely that the two men may have belonged to the same school of eclectic painters'. (register description, 1957) |
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| Associated object | IS.7:2-1957 (Verso) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.7-1957 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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