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SHAH JAHAN ON A LION HUNT
SHAH JAHAN ON A LION HUNT

MEWAR, RAJASTHAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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SHAH JAHAN ON A LION HUNT
MEWAR, RAJASTHAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, Shah Jahan rides an elephant which is being attacked by a lion, a large hunting party on horseback and on foot surround the lion, set against a rocky landscape punctuated with lakes, in black ruled margins
Folio 11¼ x 8 1/8in. (28.5 x 20.5cm.)

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拍品專文

A similar scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting Shah Jahan out hunting which is probably slightly earlier than our present painting is also attributed to Mewar (Steven Kossak, Indian Court Painting, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1997, no. 50, p. 86-87).

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