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SHIVA AND DAYAL. Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks for Cranes

Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks for Cranes. Artist: Shiva and Dayal. Culture: Western India, Rajasthan, Udaipur. Dimensions: Sheet: 26 7/8 x 29 3/4 in. (68.3 x 75.6 cm)
Image: 23 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (60.6 x 65.7 cm)
Framed: 34 5/8 × 36 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (87.9 × 92.7 × 3.8 cm). Date: dated 1744.
This spectacular panoramic vista of the Mewar landscape depicts a royal hunting party in a series of consecutive vignettes, creating a continuous narrative. The aerial perspective, reflecting the plunging views of terrain offered from many Rajput forts, was an innovation of the Mewar school, perhaps combined here with a new awareness of European cartography. The rays of golden sun--the insignia that Rajput princes displayed on their standards--add a surreal if somewhat celestial dimension to the composition. This painting is remarkable for its complex topography, differentiated with imaginatively devised pictorial devices--hillocks, streams, fields--each deployed to create a landscape of the imagination. The large scale of the work is typical of mid-eighteenth-century Mewar painting, as is the likelihood that multiple artists worked on it in a palace studio environment.

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SHIVA AND DAYAL

Titre:

Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks for Cranes

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Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks for Cranes. Artist: Shiva and Dayal. Culture: Western India, Rajasthan, Udaipur. Dimensions: Sheet: 26 7/8 x 29 3/4 in. (68.3 x 75.6 cm) Image: 23 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (60.6 x 65.7 cm) Framed: 34 5/8 × 36 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (87.9 × 92.7 × 3.8 cm). Date: dated 1744. This spectacular panoramic vista of the Mewar landscape depicts a royal hunting party in a series of consecutive vignettes, creating a continuous narrative. The aerial perspective, reflecting the plunging views of terrain offered from many Rajput forts, was an innovation of the Mewar school, perhaps combined here with a new awareness of European cartography. The rays of golden sun--the insignia that Rajput princes displayed on their standards--add a surreal if somewhat celestial dimension to the composition. This painting is remarkable for its complex topography, differentiated with imaginatively devised pictorial devices--hillocks, streams, fields--each deployed to create a landscape of the imagination. The large scale of the work is typical of mid-eighteenth-century Mewar painting, as is the likelihood that multiple artists worked on it in a palace studio environment.

Technique/matériel:

Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper

Musée:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Crédit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Autorisations:

Modèle: Non - Propriété: Non
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Taille de l'image:

3970 x 3690 px | 41.9 MB

Taille d'impression:

33.6 x 31.2 cm | 13.2 x 12.3 in (300 dpi)

Mots clés:

ART ASIATIQUE • ASIA • ENCRE • INDE • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • RAJASTHAN • SHIVA AND DAYAL • UDAIPUR