A PORTRAIT OF BHUPAL DEV
A PORTRAIT OF BHUPAL DEV

MANKOT, NORTHERN INDIA, CIRCA 1720

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A PORTRAIT OF BHUPAL DEV
MANKOT, NORTHERN INDIA, CIRCA 1720
Opaque pigments on paper, the maharaja facing right, reclining on a bolster and smoking a huqqa, wearing a diaphanous tunic and colourful turban and belt, in black rules and wide red borders, mounted
6 3/8 x 8 ¼in. (16.3 x 21cm.)

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Another painting of Bhupal Dev of Jasrota, attributed to Mankot and dated circa 1715 is in the Fondation Custodia, Paris. For a short discussion on the Raja’s influence at the court of Jammu, see Gahlin, S. The Courts of India, Indian Miniatures from the Collection of the Foundation Custodia, Paris, 1991, cat. 100, pl. 104, p. 92.

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