The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection

The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 42. Rao Jagat Singh of Kota in his garden, attributed to the Hada master, India, Rajasthan, Kota, circa 1660.

Rao Jagat Singh of Kota in his garden, attributed to the Hada master, India, Rajasthan, Kota, circa 1660

Auction Closed

October 25, 12:38 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

gouache and gold on paper, narrow inner black border rule, outer border of silver-sprinkled cream paper, inscription of identification on reverse in Devanagari script 'Sri Jagat Singhji'


26.2 by 17.9cm. (10 5/16 by 7 1/16in.)

with border: 30.1 by 21.6cm. (11⅞by 8½in.)

Acquired by Cary Welch by 1973

S.C. Welch, 'Return to Kotah' in P. Harper and H. Pittman (eds.), Essays on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in Honor of Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, New York, 1983, pp.79, 81-82, 85, 87, figs.5, 6

S.C. Welch, India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, no.241, pp.357-9

N. Patnaik, A Second Paradise, New York, 1985, pl.88

M. Dickson and S.C. Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, Cambridge, Mass., 1981, vol.1, p.233, fig.282

M.C. Beach, The New Cambridge History of India, 1:3, Mughal and Rajput Painting, pp.163-4, fig.124

S. Kossak, Indian Court Painting, New York, 1997, no.29, p.59

S.C. Welch, Gods, Kings and Tigers, The Art of Kotah, New York, 1997, fig.4, p.19

M. C. Beach, 'The Masters of the Chunar Ragamala and the Hada Master' in Beach, Fischer, Goswamy and Britschgi, Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900, Zurich, 2011, vol.1, fig.14, p.302

J. Guy and J. Britscghi, Wonder of the Age, Master Painters of India 1100-1900, New York, 2011, no.48, p.104

M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.29, pp.104-7

On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1973 and 1983

India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985

A Second Paradise, New York, 1985

Indian Court Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997

Masters of Indian Painting, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 2011

Wonder of the Age, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011

The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Colby Museum of Art, Maine, 2020