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Leaf from a Kalighat album: Parvati Placing a Wedding Garland on Shiva (recto); Yasoda Churning Butter (verso)

c. 1890

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

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Medium
Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper
Measurements
Secondary Support: 48.2 x 29.6 cm (19 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward 2003.108
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Print
A horizontally oriented tempera painting depicts two scenes on aged paper. On the left, a woman with a yellow skin tone and purple sari places a garland on a blue-skinned man wearing a yellow wrap. On the right, a woman with a yellow skin tone in a striped skirt churns butter in a yellow jar beside a small blue-skinned child. Faint graphite sketches and bold outlines define the figures.

Leaf from a Kalighat album: Parvati Placing a Wedding Garland on Shiva (recto); Yasoda Churning Butter (verso)

c. 1890

Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat

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