RAJA PAHAR SINGH HUNTING BOAR


MEWAR OR DEVGARH, LATE 18TH CENTURY Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; recto inscribed with ink in Devanagari in the upper margin: raja sri pahar singh ji umdede singhoro ri surat ghodho chutere bhujaye sabe kunwar bana ri surat che. "Portrait of Raja Pahar Singh riding the horse Chaturbhuja. Portrait of the Prince." Image: 10 1/4 x 14 7/8 in. (26 x 37.7 cm);Folio: 13 x 17 3/8 in. (33 x 44 cm)
|The pastel palette, lavish use of gold and treatment of the boar compares favorably with a hunting scene of Ari Singh, formerly in the Howard Hodgkin Collection, sold at Sotheby's, London, 24 October 2017, lot 91. Also compare a closely related late 18th-century unfinished hunting scene of Kunvar Anop Singh and Kunvar Bakhtavar Singh (Beach & Singh, Bagta and Chokha, Zurich, 2005, p.67, fig.79.) Provenance Navin Kumar Gallery, New York, 1980s Private Rhode Island Collection