Object Details
- Artist
- Shambhu
- Court
- Mewar Court
- School/Tradition
- Rajput school
- Label
- Life at court was a subject particularly favored by the 18th century rulers of Udaipur. This painting portrays Maharana Ari Singh, seated in the Amar Villas section of the City Palace at Udaipur, attended by his courtiers while he worships an enthroned Linga, an abstract form of the god Shiva. In the courtyard below, with its water tank and formal garden, musicians and dancers perform in praise of the god. The inscription on the reverse of the painting informs us that the painting was the work of the court painter Sive whom we know to have been active also during the reign of Ari Singh's father.
- 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. (established 1666)
- 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 Arts & Culture
- See more items in
- 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
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3760d353f-8536-4b05-985d-aed154f22ee5
