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Seated Lady Smoking a Hookah
c. 1780
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
A lady seated at window smokes a hookah. She wears a translucent lilac blouse and gold trousers and adorns herself with jewelry comprising pearls, gold, and emeralds. Reclining against a large bolster, she is engrossed in smoking her hookah made of gold and porcelain. The painting may have been intended to be presented to the king by the artist.
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- Title: Seated Lady Smoking a Hookah
- Date Created: c. 1780
- Physical Dimensions: Page: 32.1 x 25.3 cm (12 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.); Image: 24.1 x 16 cm (9 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.106
- Medium: gum tempera, gold, and beetle-wing carapaces on paper
- Inscriptions: Verso: four lines of Persian script on the diagonal: “this picture of B(h)avadnal (a) Sankrhald was obtained from (found in) Biruval, Monday 23….9253.” Bhiruwal is slightly south-east of Lahore city.
- Fun Fact: The artist has used beetle wings for emeralds in the jewelry.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Guler
- Credit Line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Collection: Indian Art
- Accession Number: 2018.106
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