UDAIPUR, NORTH WEST INDIA, CIRCA 1835

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MAHARANA JAWAN SINGH OF MEWAR (R.1828-38) RECEIVING ONE OF HIS NOBLEMEN
UDAIPUR, NORTH WEST INDIA, CIRCA 1835
Gouache with gold on paper, depicting the nimbate ruler seated against a red bolster, receiving a nobleman in a palace interior, with two attendants, within narrow black border with white rules and wide red margins
Painting: 5 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (13.7 x 21.2 cm.)
Folio: 12 3/8 x 9 in. (22.7 x 31.5 cm.)

Provenance

Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the estate of the above, September 1955.

Literature

R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, p. 296, no. 225.

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Lot Essay

In his entry on this painting Toby Falk notes that second figure is almost certainly Rawat Dule Singh, a minor ruler (Thakur) of the small state of Asind in Mewar. Evidently Jawan Singh made a companion of Rawat Dule Singh as he appears in a number of paintings of the period, including one where they are shown bathing together in the same pool with other chiefs (A. Topsfield, Paintings from Rajasthan in the National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, 1980, nos. 241, 242 and 244). Dule Singh however fell completely out of favour under Jawan Singh’s successor and youngest brother, Sarup Singh (A Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur, Zurich [2002], p.253).

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