Footnotes

• For an almost identical scene with Sangram Singh and three attendants, formerly in the British Rail Pension Fund, see Sotheby's, London, April 26, 1994, lot 32. Unlike his predecessor Jagat Singh opted for formal attire compare with the 'Green costumes' issued for the Spring Hunt under Sangram Singh (see Tod Annuals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, London, 1920, chapter XXI).
  Another closely related scene shows Jagat Singh slaying a boar at Khasi Odi, dated 1761 by Bakhta in the National Gallery, Victoria, (see Andrew Topsfield, Court Paintings at Udaipur, Zurich, 2001, no. 174). Although the artist is not clearly identified in the inscription, it could be suggested that the quality of line, modeling of the boar, and intense composition is most closely associated with Jiva and his son Jurghasi.
  
  The location of this scene is at Nahar Magra (Tiger Hill), the favored hunting grounds for the Ranas throughout the 18th and 19th century. Reference to the the small lake and shooting box can be mostly clearly seen in he large format painting of Sangram Singh visiting the yogi Nilakanthaji after a tiger hunt (ibid, no. 154a).
  
  Provenance:
  Private Collection, Buffalo, New York
  Acquired from Walter Prochownik in 1985

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Category: Asian Art / Southeast Asian, Indian and Himalayan Art

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