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Khandita Nayaka (The Male Lover Returns at Sunrise)

Khandita Nayaka (The Male Lover Returns at Sunrise)

about 1850
Object PlaceKangra style, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and opaque watercolor on paper
DimensionsOverall: 21.8 x 12 cm (8 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Image: 19.3 x 10.9 cm (7 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2660
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devnagari, 2 line inscription ( to be read); words in Devnagari on various elements of the painting. Reverse: on top, in Devnagari, 7 line inscription ( to be read)
ProvenanceBy 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)