Lot 113
  • 113

Illustration from a Ramayana Series: Pandavas in Exile in the Forest

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Description

  • Illustration from a Ramayana Series: Pandavas in Exile in the Forest
  • Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
  • image 13 1/4 by 19 in. (33.7 by 48.3 cm.)
  • folio 15 1/4 by 21 in. (38.7 by 53.3 cm.) unframed
Draupadi and her five husbands, identifiable by the inscriptions above their heads are visited by Banvir who pays them his respects. Yudhisthir and Banvir appear twice in the same image, separated by a low hillock, pointing to a narrative sequence frequently adopted by Pahari artists of the time.