Maharani of Rajpipla

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1994

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts Ltd., New York City, to 1994 [1]

  From 1994

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from Terence McInerney Fine Arts Ltd. in 1994

  Notes:

  [1] The Portrait of Gambhir Singh (S1994.10.1) was included in the official exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1985, the central event of the Festival of India. The exhibition was organized and co-sponsored by the Government of India (according to Provenance Remark 1, Milo C. Beach, May 25, 1994, in the object record).

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Changing Tastes: Indian Paintings of the 18th and 19th Century (December 17, 2000 to July 15, 2001)

  India: Art and Culture, 1330-1900 (September 14, 1985 to January 5, 1986)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Terence McInerney Fine Arts, Ltd. (active 1990-2013)

• Origin

  Rajpipla, Gujarat state, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1880s, 1840s

• Name

  McInerney, Terence

• Place

  Gujarat state, Rajpipla, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Princess, Portraits, Maharani

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings