This flamboyant picture of an idealised heroine is an enhanced version of the languorous female figures often found in Rajput palace mural decoration. It can be attributed to Chokha, the son of Bakhta (his painting Rawat Gokul Das at the Singh Sagar is also featured below [LI118.80]), who worked both at Udaipur and the minor court of Deogarh during the first quarter of the 19th century. His idiosyncratic works are full of brio and eclectic invention.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 112 on p. 260, p. 20, illus. p. 261
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