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A Nayika at Her Toilette Gazing into a Mirror
A Nayika at Her Toilette Gazing into a Mirror

A Nayika at Her Toilette Gazing into a Mirror

Alternate TitleThe Lady and the Mirror
Artist Kangra School (Indian, ca. 1760 - 1850)
Dateca. 1810
MediumOpaque watercolor with gold and silver on paper
DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches (18.1 x 13.02 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (27.31 x 20.96 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-311
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Art of India, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, February–March, 1949, no cat.

Mughal and Rajput Miniatures, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 15-July 15, 1958.

Indian Art exhibition, Topeka Committee for UNICEF, KS, September 24-October 31, 1967.

Genre, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 5–May 15, 1983, no. 51 as Lady Seated on a Terrace.

Provenance
Art Market, Lahore (in modern-day Pakistan), 1935 [1];

Purchased on the Lahore art market, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

NOTES:

[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01 Director's Office Records, Paul Gardner, box 4, folder 41, 1935 Sickman purchases en route. Before Laurence Sickman assumed his role as Curator of Asian Art in June 1935, he traveled through South Asia and the Middle East on his way from China to the U.S. This is one of two objects he purchased in Lahore during this trip.


Published References

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 390, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 276, no. 57, (repro.).

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