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Two Portraits of Peshwa Sawai Madhav Rao Western India, Probably by a Chinese Artist Working Under Maratha Patronage, 19th Century
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Two Portraits of Peshwa Sawai Madhav Rao Western India, Probably by a Chinese Artist Working Under Maratha Patronage, 19th Century

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Two Portraits of Peshwa Sawai Madhav Rao
Western India, Probably by a Chinese Artist Working Under Maratha Patronage, 19th Century
oil on canvas heightened with gold, bust portraits, both showing Madhav Rao in formal dress seated before a red and gold curtain, inscribed above in Gujarati identifying the sitter, framed -- 58.5 x 44.5cm. (areas of restoration).
See Illustrations. (2)
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Madhav Rao, fourth Peshwa of the Maratha empire. Born in 1745, ruled as Peshwa from 1761 and died young in 1772.
Another version of this composition is illustrated in an article by J. Appasamy, Glass Paintings of Maharasthra's in Shivaji and Facets of Maratha Culture, ed. Saryu Doshi, Marg Publications, Bombay, 1982, pp. 157 - 162, fig.5.

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