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Woman holading a fan by Raja Ravi Varma
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Portrait of an Indian woman holding a fan as she leans on a window frame overlooking a landscape with shrubbery, distant hills and the setting sun. She wears a pale blue sari, with heavy bangles and other jewellery. Painted in the Western academic tradition.
Ravi Varma (1848–1906), Indian painter best known for uniting Hindu mythological subject matter with European realist historicist painting style. He was one of the first Indian artists to use oil paints and to master the art of lithographic reproduction of his work. In addition to incidents in Hindu mythology, Varma painted many portraits of both Indians and British in India.
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1906
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Art UK
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public domain
