AN INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING DEPICTING THE PAINTING OF FEET, PAHARI, KANGRA, 20TH CENTURY

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AN INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING DEPICTING THE PAINTING OF FEET, PAHARI, KANGRA, 20TH CENTURY Opaque pigments and gold paint on paper. Set within a frame, behind glass. Finely painted to depict a young lady seated on a squat seat, one foot raised toward her attendant, who meticulously applies red lac dye. Two further attendants sit in a corner, all within an open verandah overlooking a wide river and hamlet. Dimensions: Sheet size 21.8 x 16.8 cm, Size incl. frame 38.6 x 31.7 cm A woman of the barber class had an important place in the palaces of the princes. They were the confidantes of the ladies and also acted as messengers. They brought baskets of flowers in the morning to the young ranis and also assisted in their bath. Red lac dye was applied to the feet as an aid to beauty. The poet thus describes the beauty of the heels of the lady. "The barber's wife came to paint The Nayika's feet with red mahavara, Mistaking her red round heel for a lump of dye, She began to rub it, as if to take the color out of it."

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