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RAO JAGAT SINGH <strong>OF</strong> KOTAH HUNTING<br />
BOAR<br />
KOTAH, RAJASTHAN, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>,<br />
SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper,<br />
the lively hunt depicting Jagat Singh wearing a<br />
gold wrapped turban accompanied by an older<br />
courtier on horseback, slaying and spearing a wild<br />
boar attacking a footman, two dogs follow the<br />
boar, indication of a rocky landscape to the lower<br />
right corner, on green ground, with white, yellow<br />
and black rules, modern red borders<br />
8√ x 12√in. (22.7 x 32.8cm.)<br />
£3,000-5,000 $4,300-7,100<br />
€3,800-6,200<br />
PROVENANCE:<br />
Acquired before 1991.<br />
Rao Jagat Singh of Kotah (r.1658-82) was very<br />
keen on hunting. Another closely related portrait<br />
of Jagat Singh attributed to the Hada Master<br />
of the Kotah school and dated to circa 1660 is<br />
currently on loan to the Metropolitan Museum<br />
(John Guy and Jorrit Britschgi, Wonder of the<br />
Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900, no.48,<br />
pp. 103-6). A famous portrait of Ram Singh I of<br />
Kotah hunting a rhinoceros, also on loan to the<br />
Metropolitan Museum, is dated circa 1690-1700<br />
(Milo Cleveland Beach, Mughal and Rajput<br />
Painting, Cambridge, 2002, fg.127, p.167).<br />
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MAHARANA ARI SINGH II HUNTING<br />
WILD BOARS<br />
UDAIPUR, MEWAR, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA<br />
1760-70<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper,<br />
the maharaja rides a stallion with gold trappings,<br />
wearing diaphanous robes, he spears a wild boar,<br />
another boar topples a footman over, on green<br />
ground with high skyline, within black rules<br />
and red borders, the reverse with text in black<br />
devanagari script<br />
11Ω x 16√in. (29.2 x 42.8cm.)<br />
£3,000-4,000 $4,300-5,700<br />
€3,800-5,000<br />
PROVENANCE:<br />
Acquired before 1991.<br />
For a closely related hunting scene with<br />
Maharana Ari Singh II of Mewar (r.1762-72) dated<br />
1762 see Andrew Topsfeld, Court Painting at<br />
Udaipur, Zurich, 2001, no.182, p.201. Hunting was<br />
a dangerous pastime: Ari Singh was later killed<br />
by the ruler of neighbouring Bundi state while out<br />
hunting.<br />
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