Opaque water colour heightened with gold on Paper
Image 24.6 x 16 cms
Folio 28.3 x 20 cms
Circa 1690
Prince Mohan Singh (ruled 1656 - 1699) is pictured seated against a carpeted
balustrade holding a rose, very much in the Mughal manner, & smoking a
hookah. The verso bears an inscriptions with the subject’s names and
states, the work was executed by the resident court artist, Wajid. Compare
with another earlier portrait of the Prince receiving courtier, see Indar
Pasricha “Painting at Sawar and Isarda in the 17th cent.” Oriental
Art, Autumn 1982, fig. 6 p. 262
Literature: Andrew Topsfield, Paintings from the Rajput Courts, London 1986,
cover and cat.15
