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        "tombstone": "Barber Cleaning a Woman\u2019s Ear, c. 1890. Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat. Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper; secondary support: 47.8 x 29.7 cm (18 13/16 x 11 11/16 in.); painting only: 45.3 x 28.4 cm (17 13/16 x 11 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward, 2003.117",
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        "title": "Barber Cleaning a Woman\u2019s Ear",
        "creation_date": "c. 1890",
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        "culture": [
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        "technique": "Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper",
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        "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
        "collection": "Indian Art",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Secondary Support: 47.8 x 29.7 cm (18 13/16 x 11 11/16 in.); Painting only: 45.3 x 28.4 cm (17 13/16 x 11 3/16 in.)",
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                "height_inch": 18,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.8125,
                "width": 0.297,
                "width_inch": 11,
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 200105,
                    "title": "Indian Kalighat Paintings",
                    "description": "<i>Indian Kalighat Paintings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-September 18, 2011).",
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                "description": "William E. Ward [1922-2004], Solon, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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        "description": "Kalighat paintings reflect the time and context in which they were created. Kalighat painters used their medium to offer penetrating and insightful critiques of British-influenced Indians as well as the British themselves through satires and caricatures. Newly rich Bengali native Indian clerks (babus) aspired to dress and behave like their British masters, and Kalighat painters taunted them for this. A chinless barber with cleaning pins tucked in his turban is cleaning the ears of a lady customer. A fashionable woman, she smokes a hookah and exposes one breast to her flirtatious barber. As the Bengali babus spent time with their mistresses and courtesans, neglected wives and concubines were portrayed as relying on the company of their servants.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward",
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            "A Barber Cleaning the Ear of a Courtesan"
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:26:08.140000"
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