[1] According to information from Catherine Glynn Benkaim dated May 23-24, 2016: all of the Benkaim Bharany paintings were bought in the United States. According to Benkaim, the dealer, Chhote Bharany had two children who went to school in California and relatives in New York City. He brought a lot of paintings to the west. He might have kept caches of paintings in the United States.
Dhanasri Ragini has the emotion of longing for one's absent beloved; the painful feeling (Sanskrit, viraha) is one of the central emotions explored in Indic poetry and music. The musical mode of Dhanasri is often represented as a lady recalling drawing a portrait of her lover. Arranged at her feet are a row of seashells, which artists used for mixing pigments, two bowls for water and two rectangul
[1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1150, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Voucher No. 18, December 1916.
Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G308 state 3 of 4.