Maharana Ari Singh II at worship in the City Palace
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Object Details
- Artist
- Shambhu
- Court
- Mewar Court
- School/Tradition
- Rajput school
- Provenance
- By 1972
- Switzerland, by 1972 [1]
- To 1986
- Spink & Son, Ltd., London, to 1986
- From 1986
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Spink & Son, Ltd. in 1986
- Notes:
- [1] According to correspondence in the object file, Douglas Barrett, formerly Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, confirmed that he had seen and examined this
- object in Switzerland in 1972 (see Curatorial Note 3 in object record).
- See also, the letter written by Tom Lawton, dated December 17, 1985, in which he confirms that this object was in Switzerland by the 1970s (Curatorial Note 2 in object record).
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur (November 19, 2022 to May 14, 2023)
- Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)
- South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Spink & Son Ltd.
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 1765
- Period
- Sisodia dynasty, Reign of Maharana Ari Singh
- Accession Number
- F1986.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 68 × 53 cm (26 3/4 × 20 7/8 in)
- H x W x D (exhibition frame): 88.9 × 68.6 × 4.4 cm (35 × 27 × 1 3/4 in)
- Origin
- Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- worship
- drum
- lute
- Sisodia dynasty (861 - 1947)
- palace
- fiddle
- India
- puja
- maharana
- South Asian and Himalayan Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1986.7
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3760d353f-8536-4b05-985d-aed154f22ee5
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