Click for a larger image   A Woman Offering a Cup of Wine to Her Lover
 
Kalighat Artist
Calcutta
Circa 1850

Oil on canvas
71 cm x 55 cm

This painting belongs to a small group painted in the mid nineteenth century which were done in oils. There is a closely related example in Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922 by Partha Mitter. Fig.II illustrated in colour.

Lent to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for their Show: Images From a Changing World : Kalighat Paintings of Calcutta.