A lady in an interior

Gouache with gold and silver on paper.

A lady of classic Kangra charm gazes into the glowing coals of a wheeled brazier that warms her chamber. She holds her hookah tube beneath her quilted shawl. She has been singing, and her greentanpura rests beside her. With European-inspired naturalism, the candle under its shade in the left foreground throws flickering shadows of the lady and maid on the wall behind.

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