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Design for a Red Upholstered Arm Chair from an Indian Workshop
Design for a Red Upholstered Arm Chair from an Indian Workshop

Design for a Red Upholstered Arm Chair from an Indian Workshop

Attributed to Madhu and Beni Prasad (Indian)
Dateca. 1880
MediumInk and watercolor on paper
DimensionsImage (sight): 6 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches (17.46 x 17.46 cm)
Mat: 18 x 14 inches (45.72 x 35.56 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Asian Art Acquisition Fund in memory of Laurence Sickman, from the Collection of Stuart Cary Welch
Object number2011.31.1
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Room for Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period, 1760–1880, Asia House, New York, April 13–June 4, 1978; Yale Center for British Art, Princeton, NJ, September 12–December 3, 1978; Detroit Institute of Arts, January 7–February 25, 1979, no. 67 as Indo-Victorian Furniture Design.

The Indian Heritage: Court Life and Arts Under Mughal Rule, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, April 21–August 22, 1982, no. 188 as Design for armchair with tiger arm-rests and floral ornament.

Silver Splendor: Conserving the Royal Thrones of Dungarpur, India, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 30, 2020–May 9, 2021, no cat.

Provenance

Stuart Cary Welch (1928–2008), Cambridge, MA, by 1978–2008;

To Stuart Cary Welch Estate, Cambridge, MA, 2008–2011;

Purchased at Welch’s sale, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part Two, Arts of India, May 31, 2011, as Twenty-two Designs for Furniture, Benares, Circa 1880, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2011.

 

Published References

Stuart Cary Welch, Room for Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period 1760–1880, exh. cat. (New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1978), 150-51, (repro.).

Victoria and Albert Museum, The Indian Heritage: Court Life and Arts Under the Mughal Rule, exh. cat. (London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982), 69, fig. 188, (repro.).

The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part Two, Arts of India (London: Sotheby’s, 2011), 186-87.

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