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Princess smoking a hookah

c. 1760

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms

Medium
gum tempera, ink, gold, and beetle-wing carapaces on paper
Measurements
Page: 32.1 x 25.3 cm (12 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.); Image: 24.1 x 16 cm (9 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.106
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The artist has used beetle wings for emeralds in the jewelry.

Description

A lady seated at window smokes a hookah. She wears a translucent lilac blouse and gold trousers and adorns herself with jewelry comprising pearls, gold, and emeralds. Reclining against a large bolster, she is engrossed in smoking her hookah made of gold and porcelain. The painting may have been intended to be presented to the king by the artist.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and ink painting depicts a woman with medium-light skin tone in profile facing right. Seated on a patterned cushion beneath a pale yellow arch, she wears a purple top and gold pants with long pearl necklaces. Her hand holds the red tube of a hookah. Defined lines and flat colors detail her form, while a red textile with pink flowers hangs across the top of the composition.

Princess smoking a hookah

c. 1760

Northern India, Pahari kingdoms

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