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Melancholic Woman and Attendant
Attributed to: Basawan (Indian, active about 1560–1600)
Indian, Mughal
Mughal period
about 1590 with later border
Object Place: Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 43 × 26.2 cm (16 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.688
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsPersian lines above and below the painting can be translated as: “The beauteous one of the idol temple of China has in her hand and before her eyes the book of explanation of the story of calamity.”
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)
NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).
NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).