The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
Auction Closed
October 25, 12:38 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
opaque watercolour and gold on paper, inscribed in small gold letters at top edge in Persian “the place Lahore the year 1838 Christian”; larger posthumous dedicatory inscription in black across sky “General Allard Sahib Bahadur, formerly a commander of France, assigned to the army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, may he rest in peace”; inscription in small black letters on the secretary’s paper “to the most generous Maharaja Ranjit Singh Bahadur in the province of Punjab”; narrow inner back border with gold foliate motifs, narrow pink outer border
painted area: 20.8 by 27cm. (8 3/16 by 10½in.)
with border: 22.3 by 28.6cm. (8¾by 11¼in.)
General Jean-François Allard, Lahore, 1838
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, Persian, Indo-Persian and Indian Miniatures, Manuscripts and Works of Art, London, 24 October 1921, lot 63
Maggs Bros., London, 1921
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1973
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, Persian, Indo-Persian and Indian Miniatures, Manuscripts and Works of Art, London, 24 October 1921, lot 63
Doris Wiener Gallery, Indian Miniature Paintings, 7 April-5 June 1973, no.57
S.C Welch, Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, New York, 1978, no.55, pp.124-5
R. Skelton et al., The Indian Heritage, Court Life and Arts under Mughal Rule, London, 1982, no.108, p.54
S.C. Welch, India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, New York, 1985, no.278, p.408
S. Stronge (ed.), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London, 1999, cat.139, pl.118, pp.106, 109, 121, 226
S. Qureshi, Lahore, The City Within, Singapore, 1988, p.114
J.M Lafont and B. Schmitz, 'The Painter Imam Bakhsh of Lahore', in B. Schmitz (ed.), After the Great Mughals, Painting in Delhi and the Regional Courts in the 18th and 19th centuries, Marg, Vol.53, No.4, June 2002, p.85
M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.43, pp.150-3
Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760-1880, The American Federation for the Arts, New York, 1978
The Indian Heritage, Court Life and Arts under Mughal Rule, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1982
On loan at Harvard University Art Museums, 1983
India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985
The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco, 1999-2000
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