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Painting - Dancing girls

Dancing girls

  • Object:

    Painting

  • Place of origin:

    Patna, India (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1860 (painted)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Shiva Lal (painter (artist))

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Watercolour on paper

  • Credit Line:

    P. C. Manuk and G. M. Coles Bequest, through The Art Fund

  • Museum number:

    IS.201-1949

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. The artist Shiva Lal, who painted this one around 1860, ran an artist's shop in Patna. Like his painter cousin, Shiva Dayal Lal, Siva Lal relied to a great extent on the patronage of the local gentry. In the picture he shows one of them seated on a carpet, leaning against a bolster, watching dancing-girls and musicians.

Physical description

Dancing girls, with musicians, entertaining an Indian gentleman of Patna city who is seated under a red canopy; a courtyard in the background.

Place of Origin

Patna, India (made)

Date

ca. 1860 (painted)

Artist/maker

Shiva Lal (painter (artist))

Materials and Techniques

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 23 cm

Object history note

Acquired by the donors in Patna.

Descriptive line

Painting; watercolour, Dancing girls, Patna, ca. 1860

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992, 92 p. ISBN 0944142303

Materials

Paper; Watercolour

Techniques

Painted

Subjects depicted

Girls; Dancers; Dancing girls; Patna

Categories

Paintings; Indian Company Paintings

Collection code

SSEA

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