Sujet
Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady (recto); Krishna Weighted against Precious Objects (?) (verso), 180 Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady (recto); Krishna Weighted against Precious Objects (?) (verso), 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. The maid, dressed in green, holds a hookah in her right hand. The lady in red is likely a fashionable high society concubine or prostitute known and depicted at this time as hookah-smoking, makeup-wearing, paan- (betel leaf with areca nut and lime paste) chewing hussies. The wealth created by the East India Company made it possible for Bengali babu dandies to have concubines and pay for prostitutes.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F92_373
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
82,3Mo (8,5Mo) / 37,2cm x 55,4cm / 4392 x 6546 (300dpi)