Untitled

Unknown

ca. 1725 · Ink and opaque watercolor on paper · Asian Art

Riding a light gray stallion, the maharana of Mewar, Sangram Singh, appears in four scenes, giving an episodic feel to the events recorded. Three of the vignettes depict a royal boar hunt; in the fourth, the ruler rests with his courtiers, admiring the kill, as their horses and a pack camel wait patiently nearby. Hunting dogs pursue and bring down the prey, which have been wounded by lances and arrows. A temple and village appear on the upper horizon, a recurring motif seen in a number of Mewar school paintings of this period. The resulting composition is somewhat chaotic but conveys, one suspects, a sense of the reality of such occasions.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1725

Medium

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Culture

Western India, Rajasthan, Udaipur

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Mary G. Hamilton, 1983