BUNDI, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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RAO RAJA BISHAN SINGH (1772-1821) WATCHING AN ELEPHANT FIGHT
Bundi, late 18th century
Gouache heightened with gold on paper with the central figures of two elephants fighting, the rider of one of them leaping from his mount surrounded by fleeing figures some of them holding spears, at the top the figure of Rao Raja Bishan Singh watching from a tower, red margins inscribed below with the name of the ruler, slight wear to one corner, mounted, framed and glazed
14¼ x 13 5/8 in. (36 x 32.2 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This painting is a later re-working of a drawing by the "Master of the Elephants" that is now in the Alvin O. Bellak Collection (Darielle Mason, Intimate Worlds, Indian Paintings from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection, Philadelphia, 2001, no.65, pp.158-9).

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