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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.336
Title
Portrait of a Seated Man with a Water Pipe
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/330730

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
16.8 x 11.4 cm (6 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
This object is part of a group of Indian drawings and paintings that were purchased by Norman Hurst in 2004. They had been purchased as a group by an American couple from the art dealer H.C. Mehra at the Great Eastern Hotel in Calcutta in 1953. The collection was next in the possession of a small Massachusetts museum from the late 1960s until 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mary Katherine Burton Jones in memory of Joyce Ann Bagby Kennedy
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.336
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This drawing is executed with minimal means. It depicts a lightly bearded man in profile, facing to the right. He is seated and holds to his mouth the pipe of a hookah (which is not included in the drawing).

Publication History

  • Stages of Depiction: Indian Drawings: 17th-19th Centuries, auct. cat., Hurst Gallery (Cambridge, 2006), pp 46, cat. 24

Verification Level

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