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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward
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Maid bringing a hookah to a lady (recto), from a Kalighat album
c. 1890
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Provenance
Public?-2003
William E. Ward [1922-2004], Solon, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
2003-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
William E. Ward [1922-2004], Solon, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Indian Kalighat Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-September 18, 2011).
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Sourced Overview Evidence
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. <br><br>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.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.
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