AN ILLUSTRATION TO AN AMARUSHATAKA SERIES: THE ERRANT NAYAKA STANDS BEFORE HIS DESPONDENT MISTRESSBUNDELKHAND, PERHAPS DATIA, 1650-60 Inscribed above with the text in Sanskrit of a verse from the Amarushataka and numbered on the verso 25: 'Because I thought to myself "I will see what she does," I assumed a serious mien; and she too thought to herself "Why does this false one not speak to me?" and indulged in anger. In this predicament, which promised to be entirely charming as the glances on both sides roved without any fixed aim, I laughed in a feigned manner, while she let flow a stream of tears which undermined her firm will' (C.R. Devadhar edition, Poona, 1959, v. 22, p. 31) Image: 8 x 5 1/8 in. (20.3 x 13 cm); Folio: 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (21.6 x 14.3 cm) This set is widely dispersed and must date from around the same time as another widely-dispersed set in the same style and reported to have a colophon date equivalent to 1652. Two pages of the set are now in the National Gallery of Canada, formerly in the Heeramaneck collection (Heeramaneck, 1984, pls. 31-32), others are in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Dye, 2001, no. 127), the Metzger collection (Bautze, 1991, nos. 79-80) and in the Neotia collection (Neotia, 2006, p. 172). Five more pages are in the Eva and Konrad Seitz collection (Seitz, 2015, nos. 32.1-32.5), where the series is placed in Datia. Provenance: The Estate of Dr. Claus Virch Sotheby's, New York, 17 March 2015, lot 1123