Three miniature paintings

Description:

India, probably Bikaner, 18th/ 19th c.
15 x 8/ 22 x 14,7/ 27 x 17,8 cm
Polychrome gouache paintings, partly heightened with gold. Two miniatures depicting the young "Krishna" as a divine shepherd surrounded by two sacred cows of his herd. - One depiction of the Hindu god "Brahma" with his mount (vahana) "Hamsa".
From an important private collection in northern Germany, collected mainly in India from the early 1950s until the 1980s - The Painting of Brahma published in Mookerjee/Khanna, The Tantric Way, London (1977), p. 129 - Paintings with minor wear, one with edge damages