Painting
1687 (made)
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Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, a Vaishnavite yogini or female ascetic. She wears a long robe of shell-pink diapered with gold leaves and over this a cloak of green. She holds in her right hand a peacock feather fan and in the left a conch shell. Her hair is tied back in a top-knot, ornamented with a string of pearls; on her forehead is a red tika. The background is saffron yellow dissolving into bands of white, mauve and orange, in which are flights of birds, the yogini stands on a dark green hillock on a lighter green ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Painted in opaque watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Painting, Vaishnavite yogini, by Nathu, opaque watercolour on paper, Bikaner, 1687 |
| Physical description | Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, a Vaishnavite yogini or female ascetic. She wears a long robe of shell-pink diapered with gold leaves and over this a cloak of green. She holds in her right hand a peacock feather fan and in the left a conch shell. Her hair is tied back in a top-knot, ornamented with a string of pearls; on her forehead is a red tika. The background is saffron yellow dissolving into bands of white, mauve and orange, in which are flights of birds, the yogini stands on a dark green hillock on a lighter green ground. |
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| Content description | A Vaishnavite yogini or female ascetic. She wears a long robe of shell-pink diapered with gold leaves and over this a cloak of green. She holds in her right hand a peacock feather fan and in the left a conch shell. Her hair is tied back in a top-knot, ornamented with a string of pearls; on her forehead is a red tika. The background is saffron yellow dissolving into bands of white, mauve and orange, in which are flights of birds, the yogini stands on a dark green hillock on a lighter green ground. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (handwritten on object; a further line is not deciphered)
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| Credit line | Given by the family of the late Sir William Rothenstein. |
| Object history | Dehejia, Vidya (ed.) Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art. Washington : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,1999. ISBN 8185822638/3791321293, p.386 , cat. 118. |
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| Accession number | IS.339-1951 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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