A NAYIKA PLUCKING A THORN FROM HER FOOT
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 19th century

A NAYIKA PLUCKING A THORN FROM HER FOOT
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 19th century

Opaque pigments and ink heightened with gold on paper, the small vertical-format composition depicting a nayika (female heroine) or courtly maiden plucking a thorn from her raised foot, standing in the middle of an empty landscape with high horizon, her feet and hands stained with red henna dye, her outfit (choli-ghagra) typical of North-Western Indian provinces, set within bright yellow and white rules, pasted onto tea-stained paper borders, the reverse plain except for numerical annotations, 25.4cm x 19.6cm.

Provenance: once part of a private British collection

Dimensions: 25.4cm x 19.6cm