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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION For related works, see A. K. Das, “Activities of
the Jaipur Suratkhana 1750-68” in John Guy
A PORTRAIT OF A PRINCE A PORTRAIT OF THE SERVANT (ed.) Indian Art and Connoisseurship, 1995, and
India, Rajasthan, Kishangarh, POLIRAM R. Pratap, The Organization of Suratkhana of
mid-18th Century ATTRIBUTED TO RAMJIDAS Jaipur and Its Celebrated Artist Sahibram, 1988,
India, Rajasthan, Jaipur, p. 27-35. For further discussion about the artist
Ink and black chalk on paper 18th Century see M. E. Aitken,”Sahib Ram,” in M.C. Beach,
image: 12½ by 9¼ in. (30.5 by 22.8 cm) E. Fischer, B. N. Goswamy, Masters of Indian
Opaque watercolor with white bodycolor on paper Painting 1650-1900, Artibus Asiae Sup 48 I/II,
PROVENANCE image: 5¼ by 2½ in. (12.7 by 6.35 cm) 2011, pp. 623-640.
Acquired circa 1995 PROVENANCE $ 1,000-2,000
A superb study of an unidenti ed nobleman, Acquired circa 1998
possibly attributable to the Kishangarh artist
Sitaram, the son of Nihal Chand. For a very An extremely sensitive rendering executed with
related drawing of the same nobleman see extreme clarity and almost surely from the hand
Pratapaditya Pal, The Classical Tradition in of the Jaipur master Ramjidas ( . 1755-85). The
Rajput Painting, New York, 1978, pp.138-139, cat. servant Poliram depicted in pure white muslin
46, mentioning the possibility of attribution to - his hands folded in humility - the composition
Sitaram of Kishangarh. slightly altered with delicate pentimenti.
$ 1,500-2,500
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