A YOUNG WOMAN CHOOSING HER JEWELLERY AFTER BATHING
A YOUNG WOMAN CHOOSING HER JEWELLERY AFTER BATHING
A YOUNG WOMAN CHOOSING HER JEWELLERY AFTER BATHING
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A YOUNG WOMAN CHOOSING HER JEWELLERY AFTER BATHING

ALWAR OR DELHI, INDIA, CIRCA 1820-30

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A YOUNG WOMAN CHOOSING HER JEWELLERY AFTER BATHING
ALWAR OR DELHI, INDIA, CIRCA 1820-30
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on card, set within narrow black and gold borders, the margins pale pink with black outer rules, reverse plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 12 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄8 in. (31.3 x 21.8cm.); folio 12 7⁄8 x 9in. (32.6 x 23cm.)
Provenance
Eyre and Hobhouse Ltd., London, 1982

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Lot Essay

Here the young lady, fresh from bathing, stands gracefully on a small platform, nude, save for a translucent shawl with gold-embroidered borders, and retrieving her jewellery that is heaped on a circular table to her right. By contrast to the other two paintings from this group, lots 13 and 15, the female is diminutive within the interior, drawing inspiration from neoclassical design yet infused with regional opulence. The Corinthian column provides a dramatic visual punctuation in the foreground, bisecting the large brass water basin positioned directly in front of the low marble platform. An added touch of opulence includes a gold mantle clock framed within a faux fireplace and the green door is open, unlike in lots 13 and 15, to reveal further lavish furnishings of a golden chair and European style carpet. See lot 13 for further discussion of the genre of painting.

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