The goddesses Kali and Jagadhatri
ca. 1850–70
Medium
Relief prints from metal plates, printed in black and hand-colored with red and turquoise watercolor.
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 3/4 × 22 in. (45.1 × 55.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture
West Bengal, Calcutta, Kalighat
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mark Baron and Elise Boisanté, 2021
Accession Number
2021.325.1
About the Artist
Sri Hemchandra Das
Sri Hemchandra Das was a prominent patua (scroll painter) active in the vibrant Kalighat painting tradition of 19th-century Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), West Bengal. Little is known about his early life, which remains sparsely documented, but his emergence aligns with the peak of Kalighat art in the 1890s. These paintings, produced by itinerant artists near the Kali Temple in Kalighat, captured...