Portrait of a Kneeling Man Wearing a Beaded Rosary
19th century
Description
This delicately rendered drawing depicts a young man with a short moustache, kneeling and facing to the right. He is depicted in profile, wearing a turban and beads. A push dagger is tucked into his cummerbund beneath his raised hand
Dimensions
17.8 x 12.7 cm (7 x 5 in.)
Provenance
This object is part of a group of Indian drawings and paintings that were purchased by Norman Hurst in 2004. They had been purchased as a group by an American couple from the art dealer H.C. Mehra at the Great Eastern Hotel in Calcutta in 1953. The collection was next in the possession of a small Massachusetts museum from the late 1960s until 2004.
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