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Ruler with Attendants
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15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description
- Ruler with Attendants
- circa 1790
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image 9 1/4 by 5 in. (23.5 by 12.8 cm)
- folio 17 1/8 by 11 1/2 in. (43.5 by 29.2 cm) unframed
The subject of the present portrait is most likely Maharaja Sawant Singh of Kishangarh (r. 1748-1764). Compare the facial features with an earlier, nimbated portrait of the ruler standing on a terraced garden beside a lake, see S. C. Welch, A Flower from Every Meadow, New York, 1973, no. 27, p. 56.
The painting of the Raja with his attendants displays all the distinctive attributes of the Kishangarh style; the slender, fomalized figures with faces drawn in strict profile bearing exaggerated arched eyebrows and overly elongated eyes.
Sawant Singh, the poet prince of Kishangarh was an able ruler and also a mystic and a devout Vaishnava. He composed devotional poems under the pen name of Nagari Das until the end of his life when he retired to Brindavan where he died in 1764.
The painting of the Raja with his attendants displays all the distinctive attributes of the Kishangarh style; the slender, fomalized figures with faces drawn in strict profile bearing exaggerated arched eyebrows and overly elongated eyes.
Sawant Singh, the poet prince of Kishangarh was an able ruler and also a mystic and a devout Vaishnava. He composed devotional poems under the pen name of Nagari Das until the end of his life when he retired to Brindavan where he died in 1764.
Provenance
Acquired 1970s