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JAIPUR, NORTH WEST INDIA, DATED SAMVAT 1879/1822-23 AD
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RANJIT SINGH RAJAWAT ON A PRANCING HORSE
JAIPUR, NORTH WEST INDIA, DATED SAMVAT 1879/1822-23 AD
Gouache with gold on paper, depicting the nobleman seated on a horse in a green landscape, within yellow border comprising black lozenge forms with red outlines, with white rules and red margins, a partially rubbed identification inscription in the upper margin including date in black devanagari script
Painting: 10 7/8 x 7 ¼ in. (27.8 x 18.4 cm.)
Folio: 10 x 13 7/8 in. (25.2 x 35.3 cm.)
JAIPUR, NORTH WEST INDIA, DATED SAMVAT 1879/1822-23 AD
Gouache with gold on paper, depicting the nobleman seated on a horse in a green landscape, within yellow border comprising black lozenge forms with red outlines, with white rules and red margins, a partially rubbed identification inscription in the upper margin including date in black devanagari script
Painting: 10 7/8 x 7 ¼ in. (27.8 x 18.4 cm.)
Folio: 10 x 13 7/8 in. (25.2 x 35.3 cm.)
Provenance
Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the estate of the above, September 1955.
Acquired from the estate of the above, September 1955.
Literature
R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, p. 298, no. 227.
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