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Raja Ram Chand of Amber (r. 1667–88) Hunting Wild Boar
c. 1670
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Miniature: 26 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
A Rajput king on a nocturnal hunt points his rifle toward three boars standing amid faint tufts of grass. The raja and his two attendants sit concealed behind a hunting blind, and we see their figures through a thin white screen that blends with the mists and sands in the milky moonlight. The raja, dressed in a green jama (long belted tunic), eyes his quarry intently, nearly ready to fire a bullet, and his attendants anxiously observe.
