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Royal lion hunt

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  • Description

    At the centre of this fragmentary composition, a Raja on an elephant attacks a lion with bow and arrows. The lioness and cubs stand at bay in the rocks nearby and a bear heaves a rock at the royal escort to the left. Such conventions are adapted by the artist from Mughal (and Persian) painting, but his interpretation is much more energetic, with a fluid treatment of space and bold shifts of scale.

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan (place of creation)
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Bundi (possible place of creation)
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Kota (possible place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1640
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 53.3 x 122.7 x 2.7 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 36.5 x 106 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.75

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 78 on p. 184, illus. pp. 185-187

Past Exhibitions

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