2008.336: Portrait of a Seated Man with a Water Pipe
Drawings
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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
- Permissions
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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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