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Khandita Nayaka (The Male Lover Returns at Sunrise)
Attributed to: Ram
Indian, Pahari
about 1850
Object Place: Kangra style, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 21.8 x 12 cm (8 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Image: 19.3 x 10.9 cm (7 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
Image: 19.3 x 10.9 cm (7 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2660
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devnagari, 2 line inscription ( to be read); words in Devnagari on various elements of the painting. Reverse: on top, in Devnagari, 7 line inscription ( to be read)
In AKC's hand: "From Balak Rama Shah"
In AKC's hand: "From Balak Rama Shah"
ProvenanceAbout 1910, acquired from Balak Ram Sah of Garhwal (Srinagar), great grandson of Mola Ram, by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947) [1]; by 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 180.
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 180.