Boy Selling Cakes
1790
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1790
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Boy Selling Cakes is a 1790 paint by Puqua, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a barefoot boy carrying a woven basket full of colorful cakes and fruit. He’s wearing a dark shirt and blue shorts, walking with one hand holding the basket. The background is plain white, so all the focus is on him. The artist used simple but clear colors to show the food inside the basket—reds, greens, and yellows stand out. The boy’s face looks calm, even as he walks. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A rectangular watercolour painting titled *Boy Selling Cakes* by Puqua, dated 1790, depicts a central figure in grey holding a small tray filled with cakes of varying sizes and colors. The work is part of a set of 100 paintings illustrating different trades and occupations in Canton. It was acquired from Parsons & Sons and accessioned into the collection in 1898, as recorded in the Asia Department registers during a 2022 provenance research project.
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