PROBABLY GULER, PUNJAB HILLS, INDIA, CIRCA 1830

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A SIKH NOBLE INSPECTING A HORSE
PROBABLY GULER, PUNJAB HILLS, INDIA, CIRCA 1830
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within dark blue borders with silver and gold floral decoration, red speckled pink margins, the verso plain, mounted
Painting 7 ½ x 10 ¾in. (19 x 27.3cm.); folio 13 1⁄8 x 9 7/8in. (25.1 x 33.3cm.)

Provenance

With Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck, New York, by repute
Dr. Claus Virch (d.2012), New York, 1970s, sold Sotheby's, New York, 16 March, 2016, lot 849

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Lot Essay

The noble depicted here could be Raja Suchet Singh (1801-44), brother of Gulab Singh and Dhian Singh. A painting of Suchet Singh with Raja Dhian Singh is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (acc.no. IS.264-1953) as well as an ivory portrait miniature (acc.no. 03605(IS)). A portrait of Rajah Suchet Singh smoking a huqqa was sold at Bonhams, London, 23 October 2018, lot 218. A slightly later Guler painting of comparable scale that depicts Gulab Singh in Kashmir was sold in these Rooms, 27 October 2023, lot 102.

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