File:A portrait of Maharao Umed Singh I of Kotah on horseback.jpg
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English: A portrait of Maharao Umed Singh I of Kotah on horseback
Gouache and ink on paper gouache heightened with gold on paper, inscribed on the verso in devanagari script "Shri Hajur Ji Maharaj ji Shri Umed Singh ji" attributable to a master of the Kotah School, possibly Sheikh Taju or a follower Kotah, circa 1780-1790 Maharao Umed Singh I (r.1771-1819) succeeded his father as Maharao of Kotah at the age of ten, though the state rule remained in the hands of the powerful prime minister, Rajrana Zalim Singh Jhala, whom he had inherited from the previous Maharao Guman Singh (r.1764-71). Umed Singh "was by temperament a non-assertive and submissive sort of man. From boyhood till his death he stood in awe of Zalim Singh and, therefore, there never occurred a chance of any conflict with him." (Shastri 1971, p.73). The success with which Zalim Singh administered the affairs of the state of Kotah enabled the politically ineffective Maharao to cultivate his interests in the hunt and as a patron of the arts, to which numerous great paintings and drawings of hunting scenes bear witness (Welch et al. 1997, pp.164-181, nos.45-52). The evolution of style and the identity of master artists of the Kotah school has been thoroughly re-assessed in recent years (Beach in Beach, Fischer and Goswamy 2011, vol.I, pp.291-304, vol.II, pp.459-478). This has profoundly re-aligned our understanding of painting at Kotah in the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the middle and later decades of the eighteenth century the artist who signs himself Sheikh Taju has left several extant works, and his career may have lasted until the very beginning of the reign of Umed Singh. This polished and rather majestic equestrian portrait is close to his style and may be by his hand or that of a close follower. For further discussion of Shaykh Taju and his works see Welch et al. 1997, pp.30-34, and nos.14-18, 23-24, 27-32, 34, 36-41, 43-45. For a brief historical overview of the reign of Umed Singh I, see Bautze in Welch et al. 1997, pp.51-53. |
| Date | between circa 1780 and circa 1790 |
| Source | https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/sven-gahlin-collection-l15224/lot.67.html |
| Author | attributable to a master of the Kotah School, possibly Sheikh Taju or a follower |
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