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Count the silver fish turning in the gray water, then find the bearded man in a turban looking out from among the banana plants at the left.
The Art Institute of Chicago records only where and when this was painted: Bundi, a Rajput kingdom in Rajasthan, about 1740. Two women in orange sit at the edge of a white terrace, and one reaches toward the silver fish crowding the pool below. Behind them stands a couch piled with red cushions, among banana plants with purple flower buds, palms and dark cypresses, and lotuses grow in the water.
Opaque watercolor on paper · Image: 28.4 × 20.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Royal Women Feeding Fish
- Artist
- India Rajasthan, Bundi
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.4 × 20.9 cm (11 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Outermost border: 28.7 × 21.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 29.5 × 22 cm (11 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.); 28.3 × 21 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Everett McNear Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.