RANJIT SINGH RAJAWAT ON A PRANCING HORSE
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RANJIT SINGH RAJAWAT ON A PRANCING HORSE

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.)
Provenance
Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
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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