
Mark Rasmussen
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Full of distinctive interactions, this drawing served as a finished template used to layout paintings. Amongst the delightful vignettes imagined by the artist are two girls behind Shri Brijnathji delighting in each other's company, a foremost maiden in front spraying him with a defiant look, and a beautiful woman (top right) catching a glimpse over the crowd; even a little girl spies an opening for a cheap shot up-close.
Here, the painter follows a Rajasthani convention of depicting the ruler in his own likeness as a personification of Shri Brijnathji. The arrangement of the ruler's turban and his distinctive profile, with a long, pointed nose, matches a portrait of Rao Arjun Singh of Kota inspecting a horse (Goswamy & Fischer, Pahari Masters, Zurich, 1992, p.476, fig.19). A related, similarly elaborate composition of Krishna and the Cowherds is published in Pal, The Sensuous Line, Los Angeles, 1976, p.25, no.17.
Provenance
Ray E. Lewis, San Francisco, 1960s
Collection of Milo Cleveland Beach