A Woman Escorted to Her Bed Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1780–1800

Two attendants support the somewhat limp form of a woman at court, who is led to her bed while others hold candles and lanterns. The theme of a woman being led to her bed was common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; like many themes in Indian court painting, it provides an evocative and idealized record of the daily lives of high-ranking women.

Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions: image: 11 × 7 3/8 in. (28 × 18.8 cm)
matted: 13 1/8 × 9 1/8 in. (33.3 × 23.2 cm)
Credit Line: The Henry Pearson, M.F.A. 1938, Collection, Gift of Dr. Lawrence Dubin, B.S. 1955, M.D. 1958, and Mrs. Regina Dubin
Accession Number: 2009.48.2
Geography: Lucknow, Awadh, India
Culture: Indian
Period: Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1857)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Henry Charles Pearson (1914–2006) Collection, New York; Dr. Lawrence Dubin (1934–2018) and Regina Dubin Collection, New York; gift in 2009 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Indian Miniature Paintings from the Lloyd Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., 2011)

"Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 149

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

beds (furniture) women

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