{"product_id":"indian-company-school-group-of-10-figures-trades-occupations-original-c-1810-gouache-painting-kd-478","title":"Indian Company School, Group of 10 Figure Paintings: Trades \u0026 Occupations in Gouache – c.1810 Madras","description":"\u003cp\u003eA set of original c.1810 gouache paintings – Indian Company School, Group of 10 Figures: Trades \u0026amp; Occupations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn exceptionally fine set of 10 Indian Company School figure paintings, probably executed in Madras at the turn of the 19th century. Each is exquisitely painted in opaque pigment on cream wove paper, with contemporary inscription under.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubjects comprise:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButler;\u003cbr\u003eMoorman Tailor;\u003cbr\u003eDhobi [Washerman];\u003cbr\u003ePundarum \/ Beggar;\u003cbr\u003eDubash [Translator];\u003cbr\u003eOil Monger and His Wife;\u003cbr\u003eBeetle Seller Moorman;\u003cbr\u003eConicopoly \/ Accountant [in the Madras Presidency];\u003cbr\u003eDuffadar [Officer in the British Indian Army];\u003cbr\u003eChuckler [Cobbler] and His Wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDepictions of local trades were common Company School subjects, capturing 'exotic' and unfamiliar figures from everyday life in India for Western collectors. Today they offer an important ethnographic record of prevailing caste hierarchies of the time, and the Orientalist lens through which Indian life was encountered and represented. Two of the subjects, the Chuckler (Cobbler) and the Oil Monger, are depicted with their attendant wife, handing them a tool of their trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis suite of ten paintings are a particularly fine example of Kampani Kalam (Company style painting), with exceptional sensitivity to the faces and keenly observed, minutely rendered detail to the particularities of clothing. Each figure is anchored on a patch of more loosely painted ground, which provides an effective naturalistic counterpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach on a trimmed sheet, largest: 22.5 x 17.8cm; smallest: 19.8 x 12.2cm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217662988617,"sku":"KD-478","price":14113.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/KD-478.jpg?v=1776434190","url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/es-eu\/products\/indian-company-school-group-of-10-figures-trades-occupations-original-c-1810-gouache-painting-kd-478","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}