Footnotes

• Provenance:
  Private Irish collection; a personal gift to the present owner in the early 1970s from Raja Pratap Singh of Kuchaman.
  
  Wild boar were popular game with the ruling families of Rajasthan and Central India on hunts in the bush jungle providing exciting subject material for the royal artists. The artist Parasuram was a close follower of the eminent Tara and his son Sivalal at the Udaipur court in the mid-19th Century, and all three flourished under the patronage of Maharana Sarup Singh (reg. 1842-61). An equestrian portrait of Sarup Singh riding with Rawat Khuman Singh executed by Tara and Silaval, dated circa 1858 (City Palace Museum, Udaipur) bears a strong resemblance to the above lot with the attire of both horses and riders.
  
  For further discussion and comparisons see:
  A. Topsfield, Paintings from Rajasthan in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1980, pl. 269.
  Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, Sothebys, London, 10th October 1988, lots 97 and 99.
  A. Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur: Art under the Maharanas of Mewar, Zurich 2001, pp. 265-267, 277, 283-284 and 299.
  The sale in our New York rooms, Bonhams, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, 19th March 2012, lot 1213.

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Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art

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