File:A Lady Playing the Tanpura, ca. 1735.jpg

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anonymous: A Lady Playing the Tanpura  wikidata:Q78874784 reasonator:Q78874784
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(Rajasthan, Kishangarh)
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Title
A Lady Playing the Tanpura
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description

A Lady Playing the Tanpura, ca. 1735 India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh) Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold on paper

18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (47 x 33.7 cm)

Fletcher Fund, 1996 (1996.100.1)
Date circa 1735
date QS:P571,+1735-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions 18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (47 x 33.7 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
(1996.100.1)
Place of creation India Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Fletcher Fund, 1996
Notes The Kishangarh atelier is renowned for its paintings and for highly finished, large-scale, tinted drawings such as this one. Images of a woman drinking wine, holding flowers, or playing an instrument became popular in Rajasthani painting during the first half of the eighteenth century, evolving in part from imperial Mughal precedents. Here, an entertainer appears to have transformed into a nayika, an idealized Indian heroine and personification of female beauty. She is adorned in courtly costume and jewels and plucks the string of her tanpura (a drone instrument of the lute family, frequently played by women) with henna-dyed fingertips. The drawing must date from before the 1740s, when a far more stylized and exaggerated facial type became the vogue at Kishangarh.
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Ink, watercolor, and gold artwork titled "A Lady Playing the Tanpura", ca. 1735 India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh)

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