Arte Indiana A rare portrait of a woman playing a

Indian Art A rare portrait of a woman playing a tambur and singing India, Deccan, 18th centuryInk, pigments and gold on paper . . Cm 12,00 x 22,00. Probably depicting the Todi Ragini, a musical mode in which the lady sings to a deer. A close related example with a deer, instead of the second clump of flowers on the left, is published in Fraser M.,"The V.S. Naipaul Collection of Indian Paintings, Drawing and Watercolours", London, 2014, n. 7; while this very iconography can be seen at the Islamische Museum in Berlin and published in Zebrowski. "Deccani painting", London and Los Angeles, 1983, fig. 90, col.pl. XV. Provenance: Venetian Private Collection, Italy.