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Portrait of a Seated Man
Portrait of a Seated Man

Portrait of a Seated Man

early 18th century
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk, light color, and graphite on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 15.1 × 8.1 cm (5 15/16 × 3 3/16 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2670
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsOn front: In Devanagari at top center: "Vadarubhandani." In another hand: "Garh Ki" and the number 11. (alternate readings: Badarubharani, Vadatubhadani) ProvenanceAbout 1910, acquired from Balak Ram Sah of Garhwal, great grandson of Mola Ram, by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947) [1]; by 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)

Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1930, Part VI, page 96.