Maharana Sangram Singh hunting

Object Details

• Previous custodian or owner

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts, Ltd.

• Provenance

  The Maharana of Udaipur [1]

  To 1992

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts Ltd., New City, to 1992

  From 1992

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Terence McInerney Fine Arts Ltd. in 1992

  Notes:

  [1] This object is part of a group of paintings sold by the Maharana of Udaipur and viewed in Switzerland in 1972.

  Two additional works in this group were previously acquired by the Freer Gallery with a letter from Douglas Barrett, former Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, attesting to their presence in Switzerland in 1972 (see Curatorial Note 5, Milo C. Beach, in the object record).

• Origin

  Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Date

  1720s, 1730s

• Name

  McInerney, Terence

• Place

  Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Hunting, Sisodia dynasty (861 - 1947), Maharana, Portraits, Falconry, Falcon

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings