THAKUR PRATAP SINGH OF SAWAR ON A BLACK STALLION
THAKUR PRATAP SINGH OF SAWAR ON A BLACK STALLION
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THAKUR PRATAP SINGH OF SAWAR ON A BLACK STALLION

SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1680

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THAKUR PRATAP SINGH OF SAWAR ON A BLACK STALLION
SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1680
Opaque pigments on paper, set within black rules and a red border, the verso plain with one line of largely-effaced devanagari inscription
Painting 12 ¼ x 17 1⁄8in. (31.2 x 43.5cm.); folio 13 x 17 5⁄8in. (32.9 x 44.9cm.)
Provenance
With Charles Ewart, London, by 1980
Exhibited
Whitechapel Gallery, 30 March-18 May 1980

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Lot Essay


The horse’s face would originally have had the same intense eye as that of the previous lot. The face of the rider here is particularly sensitively observed, but in its individual elements and particularly the accoutrements and pose, the main figure is very comparable to that of a painting of Thakur Pratap Singh on horseback with two attendants in the Ashmolean Museum (EA1993.37; Indar Pasricha, 'Paintings at Sawar and Isarda in the 17th Century', Oriental Art, XXVIII, no. 3, 1982, fig.2, p.260).

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