File:India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century - Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady (recto); Krishna Weighted against Precious - 2003.107 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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anonymous: Leaf from a Kalighat album: Maid bringing a hookah to a lady (recto); Krishna weighed against precious objects(?) (verso)  wikidata:Q60478611 reasonator:Q60478611
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Title
Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady (recto); Krishna Weighted against Precious Objects (?) (verso)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

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.
Depicted people Krishna Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1800s
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Medium Black ink, watercolor, and tin paint on paper
Dimensions Secondary Support: 48.6 x 30.1 cm (19 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.); Painting only: 45.8 x 27.9 cm (18 1/16 x 11 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Accession number
2003.107
Place of creation India, Calcutta, Kalighat painting, 19th century
Credit line Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward
References https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.107 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.107

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