Two natch girls, Kashmir
1854
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1854
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Two natch girls, Kashmir is a 1854 paint by William Carpenter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Two elaborately costumed and bejewelled nautch girls are seated on a terrace, with the girl on the left smoking a huqqa. A distant mountain landscape is visible through a window behind them. The work was created by William Carpenter, who trained at the Royal Academy Schools and traveled extensively in India from 1850 to 1856. The painting is executed in watercolour with warm tones.
Read the full account in the museum source.
William Carpenter (1818–1899) was an English watercolour artist. He travelled for six or seven years in the 1850s painting scenes of India, its people and its life. The Victoria and Albert Museum bought over 280 of his…
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