- Title:
A Woman of the Court at Faizabad, India [2021, YCBA]
- Former Title(s):
Dancing Girl [2016-2021, YCBA]
An Indian Dancing Girl with a Hookah [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
Young Woman with Hookah, Probably at the Court of Nawab of Oudh [1978, The British in India, exhibition catalogue]
Portrait of an Indian Girl, full length, wearing a red silk sari trimmed with gold and jewellery, holding a hookah, standing on a balcony [1965, Sotheby’s sales catalogue]
Portrait of an Indian Girl, full length, smoking a hookah, standing in an interior, with a view onto a courtyard on the left [1959, Christie’s sales catalog]
A whole-length of a Gentoo woman in full dress with a hooker [1783, artist's sale]
- Date:
- 1772
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 76 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (194.9 × 121.3 cm), Frame: 80 1/8 × 51 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (203.5 × 130.8 × 6.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
signed and dated 1772
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.385
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.385FR
- Subject Terms:
- anklets | arch | bracelets (jewelry) | columns | costume | dancer | dancing | gold | hookah | interior | jewelry | nose ring | pipe | portrait | red | wall | woman
- Associated Places:
- India
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:872
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Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
India's Fabled City - The Art of Courtly Lucknow (Musee National of Asian Art Guimet, 2011-04-06 - 2011-07-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
India's Fabled City - The Art of Courtly Lucknow (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2010-12-12 - 2011-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Raj - India and the British 1600 - 1947 (National Portrait Gallery, 1990-10-19 - 1991-03-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Splendours of Princely India (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985-11 - 1986-02-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 79, 457, 492, pl. I, fig. 31, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Mildred Archer, Tilly Kettle and the court of Oudh (1772-73), Apollo, vol. 95, no. 1, February 1972, p. 98, fig. 4, N1 A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
C. A. Bayly, The Raj, India and the British, 1600-1947 , National Portrait Gallery, London, 1990, pp. 116-7, cat. no. 137, DS428 R25 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Nandini Bhattacharya, Reading the splendid body, Gender and consumerism in eighteenth-century British writing on India , Associated University Presses, Inc., Newark, 1998, p. 144, PR129 I5 B49 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Cooper, Imperial Balls : The Arts of Sex, War, and Dancing in India, England, and the Caribbean, 1770-1870 [PhD Dissertation, Yale University ], New Haven, CT, 2015, pp. 68, 77-78, 1.19, Available Online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp.134-135, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Markel, India's fabled city, the art of courtly Lucknow , Prestel, Munich New York, 2010, pp. 46, 48 261, no. 188, n. 188, N7308 L83 M37 2010 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
John McAleer, Picturing India People, Places, and the World of the East India Company, The British Library, London, p. 147, fig. 4.8, N8214.5.I5 M43 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Pran Nevile, Beyond the veil, Indian women in the Raj , Nevile Books, New Delhi, 2000, p. 99, fig. 62, DS422 W8 N48 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Pran Nevile, The Raj revisited, Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2012, p. 12, N8214.5.I5 N48 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 18, 30, no. 78, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robin Simon, The portrait in Britain and America, with a biographical dictionary of portrait painters 1680-1914 , Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1987, p. 201, fig. 164, ND1314 S46 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, pp. 204-5, ND466 +W38 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stuart Cary Welch, The British view of India, selected English paintings from the Paul Mellon collection , American Federation of Arts, New York, 1978, N8214.5 I5 B75 1978 (YCBA) [YCBA]