
Mark Rasmussen
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With the advent of photography and the ruler's embrace of the new media to record their pomp and circumstance, the court artists had to innovate where they could; A broader palette is employed and the landscapes became minimalistic. Like his father Shivalal, Liladhar employed a radiant lurid green background.
Two later 1899 portraits by Liladhar are in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (collections.lacma.org/node/209368) and the Isabella and Vicki Ducrot Collection, Italy, (see Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Paintings, p. 81, no. ME 65). Two other portraits Maharana Fateh Singh by Sivalal, dated 1890 and 1893 are published in Andrew Topsfield, The City Palace Museum, Udaipur, Middletown, 1990, nos. 45 & 47. Another closely related work by Sivalal, dated 1883 sold at Bonhams, New York, 11 September 2012, lot 130.
Provenance:
Spink & Sons, Ltd., London, 1980s
Estate of Judith Wright, Wisconsin
Private Collection, Chicago