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A lady singingfront

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A lady singing

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  • Description

    Because of the seclusion of women in court society, portraits of ladies are rare in Indian painting. But the artists could observe accessible figures such as the court dancers and musicians. This singing-girl is depicted as a nayika, an ideal heroine according to poetical theory. Her lips parted in song, she plucks a green tanpura which bisects the page. Her arching eyebrow and elongated eye typify the ideal of physical beauty developed at Kishangarh.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › Kishangarh (place of creation)
    Date
    1740 - 1745
    Artist/maker
    possibly Bhavani Das (active c. 1700 - 1745) (artist)
    Associated people
    possibly Raj Singh, Maharaja of Kishangarh (ruled 1706 - 1748) (commissioner)
    Material and technique
    gouache with gold on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 52.5 x 39.8 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 36.5 x 25 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.31

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 97 on p. 228, pp. 10, 20, 204, & 260, illus. p. 229

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    • Returned to lender

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