SIGNED BY JIVAN RAM, JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1830-40

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RAJA PRATAP SINGH OF JAIPUR (R. 1778-1803)
SIGNED BY JIVAN RAM, JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1830-40
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and mica on paper, within yellow border, the red margins with white inner and outer rules, white devanagari inscription in upper margin, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 10 ½ x 7 1⁄8in. (27.8 x 18cm.); folio 13 1⁄8 x 9 3⁄8in. (33.5 x 24.7cm.)

Provenance

Anon sale, Sotheby's Colonnade, 9 October 1993, lot 873

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Lot Essay

INSCRIPTIONS:
In upper border Maharaja Parataba Singha painted by Jivana Rama-ji

Combining Hindu traditions with Mughal architecture, jharoka portraits were particularly popular among the Kachhwaha maharajas of Jaipur, who frequently used them to project their own particular brand of rulership. The turban which the maharaja wears is equally typical of this school. Pratap Singh is perhaps most famous today as the patron of the Hawa Mahal, the Palace of the Winds, one of Jaipur's most instantly-recognisable monuments.

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