George Landseer (1834-1878)

Portrait of H. H. the Maharaja Tukoji Rao II Holkar of Indore, seated small full-length on a cushion

Details

George Landseer (1834-1878)
Portrait of H. H. the Maharaja Tukoji Rao II Holkar of Indore, seated small full-length on a cushion
signed, titled and dated 'H.H the MAHARAJAH of INDORE. / George Landseer. / 1861.' on the reverse, further titled on the remains of an old label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
23 7/8 x 17 ½in. (60.6 x 44.4cm.)

Provenance

The Harewood Charitable Trust; Christie's, London, 26 July 1985, lot 252 (part).
with Richard Feigen, New York.
The Ehrenfeld Collection; Sotheby's, London, 25 May 2005, lot 391.
Anon. sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 9 Oct. 2012, lot 268.
with Amir Mohtashemi, 2016.

Literature

A. Jaffer and A. Okada, From the Great Mughals to the Maharajas, Paris, 2017, p.226, no.168.
J. K. Bautze, Interaction of Cultures: Indian and Western Paintings (1780-1910) from The Ehrenfeld Collection, Virginia, 1998, p.115.

Exhibited

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Interaction of Cultures: Indian and Western Paintings (1780-1910) from the Ehrenfeld Collection, Feb.-May 1998, no.24.
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Reverie and Reality: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection, Sept. 2003-March 2004, no.16.
Paris, Grand Palais, Des Grands Moghols aux Maharajahs, March-June 2017.

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Lot Essay

The artist (Sir Edwin Landseer’s nephew) travelled to India in 1859 and spent fifteen years on the subcontinent. He accompanied Lord Canning (the Governor-General of India 1856-1862) on his tour of Kashmir in 1860. The Holkar Dynasty ruled a princely state in Central India under the protectorate of British India. The Maharaja portrayed here is Tukoji Rao Holkar II, Maharaja of Indore (1832-1886).

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