- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2009.202.229
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Woman Nursing a Child
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kota
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/217071
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ink and opaque watercolor on paper; Rajput Style, Kota School
- Dimensions
- 14 x 9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Stuart Cary Welch (by 1983 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.
Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1983. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
- Accession Year
- 2009
- Object Number
- 2009.202.229
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- A seated woman, facing left, nurses her small child. Her right hand gently supports the back of her child’s neck, while her left supports her child from behind. Her hands are decorated with henna. She wears a chaniya choli, which consists of a red and purple crop top and a pink skirt. She has a long, translucent yellow shawl that covers her head and the majority of her body. She is adorned with a nose ring, earrings, a head ornament, rings, armlets, bracelets, anklets, and toe rings. Rajput style, Kota school.
- Exhibition History
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Women in South Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/26/2017 - 01/07/2018
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