SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1730

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A JHAROKA PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR JAHANGIR
SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1730
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, laid down within gold-speckled blue margins with white and red rules, the verso plain, mounted
Painting 8 7⁄8 x 6 ¾in. (22.2 x 17cm.); folio 9 7⁄8 x 7 ¾in. (25.1 x 19.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

Clearly relating to the previous painting in its choice of colours, tonality and the finely hatched shading, this is an interesting local variant of a well-known Mughal trope. The large scale and intense eyes are features observed in other Sawar paintings. It is ironic to note that Sawar was founded as a by-product of a rebellion against the subject of this painting.

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