Untitled

Unknown

ca. 1710 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper · Asian Art

Vasant means “spring,” and here, two women stand in a burgeoning springtime landscape, filling baskets with flowers. The style of the picture and its vertical format are close to those seen in works from early eighteenth-century Bilaspur. The manuscript to which this page belonged was once in the royal collection of Mandi, likely reflecting the mobility of artists between courts, as witnessed elsewhere in both Rajasthan and at the hill courts of Himachal Pradesh.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1710

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Culture

India (Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur)

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2006