PROBABLY JODHPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1820

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RAO RAJA BUDH SINGH OF BUNDI (R. 1702-42)
PROBABLY JODHPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1820
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, black devanagari identificatory inscription in the lower left, within narrow yellow border, cropped, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
12 1⁄8 x 10 5⁄8in. (31 x 27cm.)

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Lot Essay

Rao Raja Budh Singh ruled the small Southern Rajput state of Bundi from 1702 to 1742. Although a long reign, Budh Singh constantly had to resist moves to depose him and reclaim his throne by neighbouring courts during a politically unstable period which followed the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1708. A contemporaneous portrait of Budh Singh with his sons is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (IS.95-1955) and an earlier version of the present painting is in the Neotia Collection, Benares.

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