Jamini Roy

Acquired in India, circa 1950s

Thence by descent

Richard and Elisabeth Ettinghausen were celebrated art historians. Richard had an illustrious museum and education career - as the Chief Curator of Freer Gallery of Art, lecturing at Princeton University, being the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Islamic Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and in 1969 being appointed the Consultative Chairman of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Elisabeth was independent scholar and lecturer on Islamic and Byzantine art. She studied in Vienna and Istanbul and her articles on the Middle-East have appeared in various publications across the world.

The Ettinghausens’ work involved travels to South Asia. They acquired this work in India in the 1950s and brought it back to their home in Princeton. It has remained in the family since.