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Woman with a Book

Indian
18th century
Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink, light color and gold on paper
Dimensions 13.2 x 10.3 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2679
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

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, 1930, Part VI, page 96.