It was probably a priest or an agent searching in Louis XV’s orders for exotica for the Royal Library, who picked up a collection of 105 Indian miniatures and carried it to Paris from where it made its way to the collection of enlightened Polish King, Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski. Painted in gouache on handmade paper before the middle of the eighteenth century somewhere in the present State of Andhra, the paintings cover the major Hindu pantheon and some of ...
