Portrait of a Lady

Object Details

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ajit Ghose

• Provenance

  To 1930

  Ajit Ghose, Calcutta to 1930 [1]

  From 1930

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Ajit Ghose, Calcutta in 1930 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Kangra, Himachal Pradesh state, Punjab Hills, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1900s

• Name

  Ghose, Ajit

• Place

  Punjab Hills, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh state, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Portraits, Woman

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings