Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery
Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
Galleries : 132 objects
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Rajput noblemen in an interior
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Description
Strongly influenced by European photographic conventions, this late Jaipur painting shows Rupshahji Dev Bahadur (left of the table) receiving another nobleman, probably Maharaja Madho Singh of Jaipur (right of the table).
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › Jaipur (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Artist/maker
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Mohan Lal (active c. 1890) (artist)
- Associated people
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Rupshahji Dev Bahadur (active c. 1890) (subject)probably Madho Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur (ruled 1880 - 1922) (subject)
- Material and technique
- gouache on cloth with tinfoil
- Dimensions
- 77.5 x 89.6 cm irregular, max. (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Howard Hodgkin, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.34
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Further reading
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 43/4, (Winter 1997-1998), p. 30, illus. p. 30 fig. 17
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Rajasthani Painting: Its Study and Scope’, Andrew Topsfield, ed., Court Painting in Rajasthan (Mumbai: Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2000), p. 10, illus. p. 11 fig. 12
Location
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- currently in research collection
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