Sujet
Barber Cleaning a Woman?s Ear, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Barber Cleaning a Woman?s Ear, 1800s. Kalighat paintings reflect the time and context in which they were created. Kalighat painters used their medium to offer penetrating and insightful critiques of British-influenced Indians as well as the British themselves through satires and caricatures. Newly rich Bengali native Indian clerks (babus) aspired to dress and behave like their British masters, and Kalighat painters taunted them for this. A chinless barber with cleaning pins tucked in his turban is cleaning the ears of a lady customer. A fashionable woman, she smokes a hookah and exposes one breast to her flirtatious barber. As the Bengali babus (native Indian clerks) spent time with their mistresses and courtesans, neglected wives and concubines were portrayed as relying on the company of their servants.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F70_403
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
88,4Mo (7,6Mo) / 37,2cm x 59,5cm / 4397 x 7026 (300dpi)