A lady on a terrace with hookah and falcon
date: label: Date
content: 20th century
name: label: Artist
content: Attributed to a follower of Har Jaimal (active late 18th century)
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Nurpur school
label: Label
content: This painting represents a traditional subject: a beautiful woman standing by a tree. Dressed in lavender and with a blandly generic face, she holds a white falcon and a hookah mouthpiece. The flowery tree to her left and the distant landscape are cursorily rendered. The painting is by a follower of Har Jaimal, an artist identified by his landscapes of rolling hills dotted with tiny trees represented by a series of tiny horizontal brush strokes and dotted patches. This work's high-key pastel palette, particularly its atypical teal, suggests that this folio is a 20th-century work based on Har Jaimal's style.
label: Provenance
content: To 1969
label: Provenance
content: Kasmin Gallery, London, England. [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1969 to 2001
label: Provenance
content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), Beverly Hills, California, purchased from Kasmin Gallery, London, England. In April 1969. [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 2001 to 2018
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001. [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 2018
label: Provenance
content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim. [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Ralph Benkaim purchased the painting in 1969 from Kasmin Gallery in London, several years before Indian paintings were classified as antiquities by the Indian government, according to his personal records via Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [4] See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file, Collections Management Office.
label: Collection
content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Kasmin Gallery (English, 1963-1972)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
place: label: Origin
content: India
topic: label: Topic
content: falcon
label: Topic
content: woman
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: hookah
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
label: Topic
content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
setName: label: See more items in
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: S2018.1.15
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 23.5 × 15.9 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (miniature): 19.1 × 12.1 cm (7 1/2 × 4 3/4 in)