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Lot Essay
This painting is an example of the very large court paintings that were still being produced at Udaipur into the 20th century. Most of them are to be found in the collection of the City Palace Museum. Other examples are illustrated by Andrew Topsfield's in The City Palace Museum, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, 1990. The present work is a copy of cat. 69 of Topsfield's publication, Maharana Bhupal Singh inspecting he royal horses and elephants at Dassehra, attributed to Pannalal and Chhaganlal (p.148).
They were painted by Udaipur artists in a long continuous tradition from the 18th century until the early 20th century. They are unusual in their huge size and in the panoramas of durbars, processions, and festivals. They are executed in gouache with the addition of gold and silver, in the tradition of Indian miniature painting, usually involving huge numbers of people each painted with individual features, dwarfed by the scale of the backgrounds.
Maharana Bhupal Singh was the last ruler to commission these large paintings.
A painting from the same series sold at Christie's King Street, 10 April 2014, lot 168.
They were painted by Udaipur artists in a long continuous tradition from the 18th century until the early 20th century. They are unusual in their huge size and in the panoramas of durbars, processions, and festivals. They are executed in gouache with the addition of gold and silver, in the tradition of Indian miniature painting, usually involving huge numbers of people each painted with individual features, dwarfed by the scale of the backgrounds.
Maharana Bhupal Singh was the last ruler to commission these large paintings.
A painting from the same series sold at Christie's King Street, 10 April 2014, lot 168.