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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Punjab
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India
- Date
- circa 1800
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- opaque watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 26.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Jim Masselos 2022
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 27.2022
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Hunting was a popular pastime of India’s rulers, and representations of such pursuits form a significant genre in Indian court art. The Rajput and Mughal courts included ateliers of painters, part of whose role was to document the exploits of rulers and, thereby, their power and importance. This painting from the Punjab Hills shows aristocrats on horseback surrounding deer and a tiger by a pond. A large retinue of attendants supports the hunters, and their significant encampment can be seen in the distance.
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Provenance
Maggs Bros. Ltd., early 1980s, London/England
Jim Masselos, early 1980s-2022, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, April 2022.