MAHARAJA SURAJ SINGH

ATTRIBUTED TO MURAD REZA, PROBABLY BIKANER, NORTH INDIA, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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MAHARAJA SURAJ SINGH
ATTRIBUTED TO MURAD REZA, PROBABLY BIKANER, NORTH INDIA, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, Maharaja stands elegantly dressed, with his hands folded in front of him, a black background surrounds him with a high blue horizon above, laid down on wide salmon coloured gold-speckled margins with a thin blue border, identification inscription and artist's attribution on the reverse in black devanagri, mounted
Painting 9 x 5¾in. (22.5 x 14.7cm.)

Provenance

Anon sale in these Rooms, 12 October 1999, lot 98

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Lot Essay

Portrait painting in Bikaner was heavily influenced by the Mughal court style. For a royal portrait rendered in a very similar style to our painting attributed to Bikaner circa 1670 see Roda Ahluwalia, Rajput Painting: Romantic, Divine and Courtly Art from India, London, 2008, no. 61, p. 100.

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