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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.114
Title
Portrait of Maharaja Kumar Sawant Singh of Kishangarh (r. 1748-57)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1745
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kishangarh
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310428

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
39 x 25.7 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
framed: 57.47 x 43.5 x 2.22 cm (22 5/8 x 17 1/8 x 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift in gratitude to John Coolidge, Gift of Leslie Cheek, Jr., Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg, Louise Haskell Daly, Alpheus Hyatt, Richard Norton Memorial Funds and through the generosity of Albert H. Gordon and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.114
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stuart Cary Welch and Mark Zebrowski, A Flower from Every Meadow: Indian Paintings from American Collections, exh. cat., New York Graphic SocietyNew York Graphic Society (New York, NY, 1973), p. 56 - 57, fig. 27
  • Mohinder Singh Randhawa and Doris Schreier Randhawa, Kishangarh Painting, Vakils, Feffer & Simons Limited (Bombay, 1980), pl. 1, ill. opp. p. 14
  • Milo Cleveland Beach, Eberhard Fischer, and B.N. Goswamy, ed., Masters of Indian Painting, exh. cat., Artibus Asiae Publishers (Zürich, 2011), p. 534, no. 30; p. 540, fig. 9b; p. 546, fn. 31
  • Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels, Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India: Poetry and Paintings from Kishangarh, EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt (Berlin, 2015), pp. 144-146, 268, pl. 7

Exhibition History

  • The Grace of White: Indian Paintings and Objects, 16th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/23/1994 - 09/29/1994
  • Indian Harvest: Part 2, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/17/1996 - 04/28/1996
  • Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, The Drawing Center, New York, 04/16/1997 - 06/07/1997
  • Pavilions of Love: A Ritual Space in Indian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/10/2007 - 09/23/2007

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