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Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Unknown artist · 18th century

Palette

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Artist

Unknown artist
Uttar Pradesh, Avadh

Date

18th century

Type

Painting

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Size

Image: 15.7 × 9.3 cm (6 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Outermost border: 30.5 × 19.2 cm (12 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 31.7 × 20.3 cm (12 1/2 × 8 in.)

Place

Avadh

Period

17th century

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 28

Art Institute of Chicago, Lucy Maud Buckingham Memorial. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules