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Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat
c. 1720
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Miniature: 31.8 x 22.2 cm (12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Rajput Kingdom of Jodhpur
- 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The bust portrait of a Rajput ruler shows him wearing a blue turban with floral pattern and white garment. A costly pearl and ruby earring suggests his financial affluence. The artist has exhibited his skill in the sensitive rendering of the figure’s eyebrow and mustache.
