Untitled
1890
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1890
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is a 1890 paint by Nibaran Chandra Ghosh, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A boy in a yellow skirt sits under a blue cow, playing a flute. The cow stands still, its head turned slightly away. Behind them, a big tree with dark leaves fills the top of the painting. The boy wears a red cloth draped over one shoulder and a red flower in his hair. This painting mixes bright colors with simple shapes, almost like a storybook illustration. The cow’s eye is just a small circle, and the boy’s face is calm, as if he’s lost in music. Look up Nibaran Chandra Ghosh to see more paintings like this one.
The artwork is an opaque watercolour painting on paper by Nibaran Chandra Ghosh, dated to 1890, depicting the Hindu deity Krishna milking a cow beneath a tree. Originally acquired by W G Archer in 1932 at Kalighat from the artist’s descendants, it was attributed to Ghosh through family tradition. Archer later presented the work in 1939 to A B Bartlett, from whom it was purchased for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1949.
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Nibaran Chandra Ghosh painted in Calcutta around 1890. His single known work here is an Untitled painting from that decade. Little else is recorded about him, but the piece shows the loose brushwork and muted colors…
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