Arts of the Islamic World and India

Arts of the Islamic World and India

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 174. An illustration from the Mahabharata: Dronacharya in discussion with Duryodhana and Dushasana, South India, Mysore, Seringapatam, circa 1670.

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An illustration from the Mahabharata: Dronacharya in discussion with Duryodhana and Dushasana, South India, Mysore, Seringapatam, circa 1670

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4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

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gouache heightened with gold on paper, inscriptions in black devanagari script, losses to surrounding text and to edges of sheet, 14 lines of devanagari script to the reverse

15.7 by 21.8cm.

This illustration depicts the learned Dronacharya, guru to both the Pandavas and the Kauravas, advising Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas, and Dushasana, Duryodhana’s younger brother. Additional folios from this dispersed series are now in various private and public collections including the Jagdish Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad (76.528-529); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.88.29.2); the San Diego Museum of Art (formerly in the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, 1990.1399); and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (F1975.5).