Prositapatika Nayika
1760
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1760
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Prositapatika Nayika is a 1760 paint by Unknown, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows three people inside a room with a balcony overlooking a green hillside. The woman on the left stands near a doorway, holding a fan. The seated woman in the center wears a green dress with gold embroidery and holds a flower. Outside the balcony, a man plays a stringed instrument, dressed in bright orange and purple. The balcony’s railing has a cutaway view, letting us see the musician’s legs dangling. The walls inside are decorated with simple patterns and framed panels, while the hillside outside is painted in flat, bright colors. Look up Romanticism next to see how this style valued emotion and nature.
The painting *Prositapatika Nayika* depicts a seated woman in distress, accompanied by a companion, as she refuses consolation due to her lover’s absence. She holds an object, likely a jonquil, in her hand, resembling a flowering stalk seen in another similar work, *Lady on the Terrace*, both attributed to the artist Punch based on stylistic grounds. The facial details of the figure align with other works by Punch in the Lahore Museum’s collection. Acquired in 1951 alongside related pieces, the work was purchased for £20-10-0 and attributed to the same artist in museum records.
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