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A learned Brahmin seated under a flowering tree
Indian, Pahari
About 1700
Object Place: Probably Nurpur, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 12.6 x 9.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2776
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsAKC - Obverse: Inscription in white Takri characters on red border "Brahamana vidava"
ProvenanceBy 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)