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A Seated Devotee

Keywords: Painting
Pahari Painting

Publisher: National Museum, New Delhi

Description: This painting belongs to the Pahari school of painting and depicts a middle-aged devotee performing puja before deities kept on a chowki. The devotee is seated on a white cloth, has fair complexion with clear black eyes and grey moustaches. He wears a white cloth, a cap made of black beads, malas of black beads, armlets and is counting beads with his hands in the gomukhi. Various accessories for puja are placed before him. The painting has a grey background with a red border and a black line.

Type: Painting

Received From: National Museum, New Delhi


DC Field Value
dc.coverage.spatial Nurpur
dc.coverage.temporal Late 18th Century
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-13T11:38:34Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-13T11:38:34Z
dc.description This painting belongs to the Pahari school of painting and depicts a middle-aged devotee performing puja before deities kept on a chowki. The devotee is seated on a white cloth, has fair complexion with clear black eyes and grey moustaches. He wears a white cloth, a cap made of black beads, malas of black beads, armlets and is counting beads with his hands in the gomukhi. Various accessories for puja are placed before him. The painting has a grey background with a red border and a black line.
dc.format.extent 20 x 13.5 cm (approx. with border)
dc.format.mimetype image/jpg
dc.publisher National Museum, New Delhi
dc.subject Painting
Pahari Painting
dc.type Painting
dc.identifier.accessionnumber 75.1213
dc.format.medium image
dc.format.material Paper


DC Field Value
dc.coverage.spatial Nurpur
dc.coverage.temporal Late 18th Century
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-13T11:38:34Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-13T11:38:34Z
dc.description This painting belongs to the Pahari school of painting and depicts a middle-aged devotee performing puja before deities kept on a chowki. The devotee is seated on a white cloth, has fair complexion with clear black eyes and grey moustaches. He wears a white cloth, a cap made of black beads, malas of black beads, armlets and is counting beads with his hands in the gomukhi. Various accessories for puja are placed before him. The painting has a grey background with a red border and a black line.
dc.format.extent 20 x 13.5 cm (approx. with border)
dc.format.mimetype image/jpg
dc.publisher National Museum, New Delhi
dc.subject Painting
Pahari Painting
dc.type Painting
dc.identifier.accessionnumber 75.1213
dc.format.medium image
dc.format.material Paper