Company school
(India late 18th century–late 19th century)
- Title
- A religious mendicant
- Other titles:
- An infidel religious mendicant
Indian couple - Place of origin
-
Thanjavur (Tanjore) →
Tamil Nadu →
India
- Cultural origin
- Company school; probably by a Muslim artist working in Thanjavur. (see note).
- Year
- circa 1800
- Media categories
- Painting, Watercolour
- Materials used
- opaque watercolour with gold on paper
- Dimensions
-
22.0 x 17.2cm image; 28.2 x 22.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr George Sandwith 1957
- Accession number
- 9645
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
For further details on this genre of painting refer to Mildred Archer, "Company Paintings" (1992), pg. 43-66. With the continued decline of India's ruling classes and a shift in the patronage of art, artists of the Mughal/Muslim courts migrated to the new centres of art patronised by the British. Thus the Persian inscription suggests the work of a Muslim artist. Stylistically these paintings conform to the Thanjavur style of Company school painting. (Refer to Chaitanya, 1994, "A History of Indian Painting: the Modern Period", pg.103).
From a series of paintings of castes and their occupations.
Asian Art Dept., AGNSW, 11 November, 1997.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Jim Masselos (Australia) (Author), Divine and Courtly Life in Indian Painting, Domain, 1991. cat.no. 8.1
- Exhibition history (4)
-
A survey of Indian art (1967), Fisher Library, University of Sydney, 06 Sep 1967–23 Sep 1967.
Divine and Courtly Life in Indian Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Oct 1991–08 Jan 1992.
unknown, Georges Melbourne Pty Ltd.
unknown, Royal Empire Society.
