India
Gouache on cardboard album page depicting a composite elephant passing on the left, mounted by a noblewoman offering wreaths of flowers to a noble rider, with angels.
Size: 27 x 22 cm
Composite creatures appeared in India in the second half of the 16th century, testifying to the inventiveness of Indian painters and their taste for unusual, overloaded forms.
A composite elephant, India.
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