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Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat

c. 1720

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Rajput Kingdom of Jodhpur

Medium
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Measurements
Miniature: 31.8 x 22.2 cm (12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.196
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Rao Shiv Singh’s granddaughter was married to Maharaja Pratap Singh of Jaipur (CMA 2011.207).

Description

The bust portrait of a Rajput ruler shows him wearing a blue turban with floral pattern and white garment. A costly pearl and ruby earring suggests his financial affluence. The artist has exhibited his skill in the sensitive rendering of the figure’s eyebrow and mustache.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and gold painting depicts Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat, a man with medium-light skin tone in profile facing left. He wears a blue turban patterned with red flowers, bound by a yellow sash and topped with a gold plume. Dark sideburns and a mustache frame his face; a beaded hoop earring hangs from his ear. He wears a white garment set against a solid, dark brown background.

Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat

c. 1720

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Rajput Kingdom of Jodhpur

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