A PORTRAIT OF A MARATHA NOBLE

GWALIOR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1865

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A PORTRAIT OF A MARATHA NOBLE
GWALIOR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1865
Possibly Maharaja Jayaji Rao Sindhia (r. 1843-1886), opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the figure seated against a bolster wearing a white jama with a shawl of honour over his legs, his head with elaborate red turban, within yellow and black borders
16 5/8 x 12 3/8in. (42 x 31.5cm.)

Provenance

Acquired before 1991.

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Lot Essay

Another very closely related portrait probably from the same series attributed to Gwalior circa 1865, which was formerly in the Binney Collection, depicts the Maratha general Ram Rao Phalke (R. Crill and K. Jariwala, The Indian Portrait, London, 2010, pp.168-169, n.50).

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