THREE STANDING PORTRAITS OF INDIAN MAHARAJAS
Mewar and Bundi, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 18th century

THREE STANDING PORTRAITS OF INDIAN MAHARAJAS
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
Mewar and Bundi, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 18th century

Opaque pigments and ink heightened with gold on wove paper, comprising two standing portraits of the same Indian Maharaja with a flaming golden halo, wearing a tall black heron feather aigrette in his turban, in one portrait dressed in a long orange jama tightened with a silver sash, in the latter with a fine diaphanous white muslin jama with a red sash, holding a bunch of lotus flower buds in one hand, his forehead marked with the Shaiva tripundra, set within black rules, and a white-washed pink border and bright red border respectively, with annotations in black ink Devanagari script on both reverse, the largest 27.7cm x 19.6cm; and another similar standing portrait, smaller in size, depicting a young yellow-clad Maharaja with a flaming halo, holding a lotus bud and a tall encrusted tulwar sword, the reverse with two lines of black ink annotations, 19cm x 12cm.

Provenance: once part of a private German collection

Dimensions: the largest 27.7cm x 19.6cm