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A HORSE-DRAWN CABRIOLET AND A SHOUTING MAN AND A PROFILE
DRIVER STUDY: A DOUBLE-SIDED
India, Rajasthan, possibly Kotah, DRAWING
mid-19th Century India, Rajasthan, possibly Kotah,
early 19th Century
Ink with color and white bodycolor on paper
image: 6½ by 9½ in. (16.5 by 24.1 cm) Ink with slight color on paper
image: 6½ by 4⅓ in. (16.5 by 10.2 cm)
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE
Acquired 1989
Acquired 1988
An elegant stallion wearing a saddle and a
feathered head ornament pulls a tall-wheeled Recto: an agitated turbaned man yells - with open
European-style cabriolet open carriage in mouth his teeth and tongue visible - his eyes
a digni ed walk. His pensive driver stares glaring and eyebrows arched. A small study of
distractedly alongside perhaps waiting for a an elephant’s head with trunk holding a scale
customer. This type of carriage was particularly enigmatically sketched above.
in favor at Kotah and other Rajasthani courts
during the mid-Nineteenth Century. Verso: a gure study (likely but not de nitely
female) in pro le with an elaborate gold
The present superbly rendered drawing is earring and jewelry. Black ink blotches in the
Company School in both style and subject. composition.
The drawing retains numerous pentimenti or
corrections, visible in the position of the horses $ 800-1,200
legs and carriage details with additional tinges of
white bodycolor.
$ 1,500-2,500
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