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Model drawings of three women with pricked outlines
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The subject of this working sketch--a nayika being bathed by an attendant--was a popular subject in Northern India. In addition to the two central figures, another faintly drawn figure stands near the left margin. The edges of all three figures are outlined with pinpricks, indicating that they were reproduced by pouncing. The setting for the figures is suggested by the outline of a building at left and a tree tops peeking over a garden wall.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[H.C. Mehra] Calcutta (November 16 1953); purchase by L.C. and P. Wyman American couple; gift to Art Complex Museum 189 Alden Street Duxbury (1960s); purchase by Kathy Burton Jones [Norman Hurst] Hurst Gallery 53 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge (2004); gift to Harvard Art Museum (2009).
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Katherine Burton Jones
Title: Model drawings of three women with pricked outlines
Description:
The subject of this working sketch--a nayika being bathed by an attendant--was a popular subject in Northern India.
In addition to the two central figures, another faintly drawn figure stands near the left margin.
The edges of all three figures are outlined with pinpricks, indicating that they were reproduced by pouncing.
The setting for the figures is suggested by the outline of a building at left and a tree tops peeking over a garden wall.
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