Maharana Ari Singh II at worship in the City Palace

Object Details

• Artist

  Shambhu

• Court

  Mewar Court

• School/Tradition

  Rajput school

• 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)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Spink & Son Ltd.

• Origin

  Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1760s

• Name

  Spink & Son Ltd.

• Place

  Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India

• Topic

  Musical instruments, South Asian and Himalayan Art, Worship, Art, Sisodia dynasty (861 - 1947), Drums (Membranophones), Maharana, Palace, Puja, Lute

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings