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Materials:

Opaque watercolor on paper

Size Notes:

folio 24.5 x 16.5 cm

Description:

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Literature:

Compare with a closely related composition of Dakshina Kali formerly in the John and Berthe Ford Collection, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (see Jackie Menzies, Goddess: Divine Energy, Sydney, 2006, no. 85. Also see and image of Candi Devi with the face and treatment of the body in W G Archer, Indian Painting in the Punjab Hills, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1952, no. 21, and another in the oval format in Ananda Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections, Part V, Rajput Paintings, Boston, 1926, pl LXIII, no. CXCIX (17.2576).

Provenance:

Dr. Alec Simpson Collection, New Jersey~