File:A Lady Playing the Tanpura, ca. 1735.jpg

Summary

Artist	(Rajasthan, Kishangarh)
Title	A Lady Playing the Tanpura
Description	A Lady Playing the Tanpura, ca. 1735 India (Rajasthan, Kishangarh) Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold on paper 18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (47 x 33.7 cm) Fletcher Fund, 1996 (1996.100.1)
Date	ca. 1735
Medium	Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions	18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (47 x 33.7 cm)
Current location	Metropolitan Museum of Art   Native name Metropolitan Museum of Art Location New York City, United States Coordinates 40° 46′ 46.01″ N, 73° 57′ 47.20″ W Established 1870 Website www.metmuseum.org Authority control WorldCat
Accession number	(1996.100.1)
Credit line	Fletcher Fund, 1996
Notes	The Kishangarh atelier is renowned for its paintings and for highly finished, large-scale, tinted drawings such as this one. Images of a woman drinking wine, holding flowers, or playing an instrument became popular in Rajasthani painting during the first half of the eighteenth century, evolving in part from imperial Mughal precedents. Here, an entertainer appears to have transformed into a nayika, an idealized Indian heroine and personification of female beauty. She is adorned in courtly costume and jewels and plucks the string of her tanpura (a drone instrument of the lute family, frequently played by women) with henna-dyed fingertips. The drawing must date from before the 1740s, when a far more stylized and exaggerated facial type became the vogue at Kishangarh.
Source/Photographer	http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/60004980?rpp=20&pg=4&ft=mughal&pos=78

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