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| Keywords: A Lady Playing the Tanpura, ca. 1735.jpg A Lady Playing the Tanpura ca 1735 India Rajasthan Kishangarh Ink opaque and transparent watercolor and gold on paper 18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in 47 x 33 7 cm Fletcher Fund 1996 1996 100 1 ~ 1735 Ink opaque and transparent watercolor and gold on paper 18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in 47 x 33 7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art object history credit line Fletcher Fund 1996 The Kishangarh atelier is renowned for its paintings and for highly finished large-scale tinted drawings such as this one Images of a woman drinking wine holding flowers or playing an instrument became popular in Rajasthani painting during the first half of the eighteenth century evolving in part from imperial Mughal precedents Here an entertainer appears to have transformed into a nayika an idealized Indian heroine and personification of female beauty She is adorned in courtly costume and jewels and plucks the string of her tanpura a drone instrument of the lute family frequently played by women with henna-dyed fingertips The drawing must date from before the 1740s when a far more stylized and exaggerated facial type became the vogue at Kishangarh accession number 1996 100 1 http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/60004980 rpp 20 pg 4 ft mughal pos 78 http //www metmuseum org/toah/works-of-art/1996 100 1 PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard People with musical instruments in art Watercolor paintings of women of India String instruments in art Rajasthan style Female musicians in art of India 1735 paintings 1735 in India 1730s watercolor paintings Costumes in India Women with jewellery in art Females with pearl jewellery in art Portrait paintings of women wearing turbans Women's clothing of India in art Jewellery of India 1730s paintings from India Female headgear of India Tambura Kishangarh painting | ||||
