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Jai Singh III of Jaipur (r. 1818–1835) Riding
c. 1820
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 10 x 14.3 cm (3 15/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Jaipur
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In contrast to imperial Mughal painting and Western portraiture, native or Rajput Indian portraits are simpler and more monumental in design, standing essentially as symbols of general ideas. Here the Rajput ruler sits unaffected by the gallop of his mount, with the trappings of a warrior and the devotional marks of a follower of the Hindu god Vishnu on his forehead. He is depicted as an ideal warrior king, pious, in full control, gazing ahead abstractly as though seeing an immutable truth.
