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KAMSA ATTACKS DEVAKI AND VASUDEV WHILE LEAVING MATHURA POST THEIR MARRIAGE







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LIVE AUCTION: SOUTH ASIAN TREASURES
17 DECEMBER 2014

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KAMSA ATTACKS DEVAKI AND VASUDEV WHILE LEAVING MATHURA POST THEIR MARRIAGE
Bengal, 19th Century CE
Oil on canvas
23 x 29 in (58.4 x 73.7 cm)

REGISTERED ANTIQUITY-NON-EXPORTABLE

Provenance: An Important Private Collection, Mumbai
Popularly known as Dutch Bengal, works from this genre display an amalgam of Indian and western style of painting. A popular belief is that the painters of this style trained under iterant English and European painters who came to india to seek their fortune under and patronage of the western rulers. The distintive features of this style are the depiction of the trees, clouds and the face in the sky which draw from western sources.

KAMSA ATTACKS DEVAKI

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