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).