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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.77
People
Unknown Artist
Title
Amar Singh II (as a Prince) and his Father Watch an Entertainment
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1685
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Udaipur
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310660

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
image: 27.5 x 24 cm (10 13/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
framed: 57.47 x 43.5 x 2.22 cm (22 5/8 x 17 1/8 x 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift in gratitude to John Coolidge, Gift of Leslie Cheek, Jr., Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg, Louise Haskell Daly, Alpheus Hyatt, Richard Norton Memorial Funds and through the generosity of Albert H. Gordon and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.77
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Andrew Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur: Art under the patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar, Museum Rietberg Zürich (Zürich, 2001), p. 115, fig. 82, reproduced in b/w
  • Milo Cleveland Beach, Eberhard Fischer, and B.N. Goswamy, ed., Masters of Indian Painting, exh. cat., Artibus Asiae Publishers (Zürich, 2011), p. 519, no. 47, fig. 1
  • Dr. Forrest McGill, ed., Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region, exh. cat., Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (San Francisco, 2022), p. 54, fig 8; pp. 55-56, figs. 9-10

Exhibition History

  • Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, The Drawing Center, New York, 04/16/1997 - 06/07/1997
  • 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/02/2016 - 04/26/2017

Verification Level

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