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拍品专文
Colonel Maharana Sajjan Singh (r. 1874-1884) oversaw what can be appreciated as the final phase of Mewar painting. This new phase, continued by his successor Maharana Fateh Singh (r.1884-1930) was greatly influenced by oil paintings both made in India and brought into India, as well as new photographic innovations. As a result, the Mewar court ateliers became increasingly focused on realism, particularly in terms of portraiture and landscape.
The present painting is dated by inscription to the month of Pausha in samvat 1938/1881 CE and ascribed to the court artist Shivalal. The extensive inscription also identifies each of the many courtiers striding alongside Sajjan Singh. The artist Shivalal is the son of the well-recognized painter Tara. His brother, Mohanlal, worked for the court in a novel role as a photographer. Shivalal is known to have collaborated with Tara on at least one occasion under the reign of Maharana Swarup Singh (r.1841-1861) in 1858. The artist is most well known for his expansive depictions of hunting scenes, particularly for the natural topographic features he would include while painting on site. He also experimented with the new medium of photography, coloring albumen prints often captured in his brother's photokhana. The brothers continued to work under Sajjan Singh's successor, Maharana Fateh Singh; however, the increasingly available medium of photography, and the realism and immediacy it brought with it, ultimately took over the role of traditional court painting in Mewar.
A portrait of Maharana Swarup Singh attributed to Shivalal from the Ann and Gordan Getty Collection sold at Christie's New York, 24 October 2022, lot 1152. Two later paintings by Shivalal, both portraits of Sajjan Singh's successor, Maharana Fateh Singh, dated 1890 and 1893, are published by Andrew Topsfield in The City Palace Museum, Udaipur: Paintings of Mewar Courtly Life, Middletown, NJ, 1990, nos. 45 and 47. Spectacular examples of Shivalal's expertise in topographical landscape are evidenced by a painting of Maharana Fateh Singh hunting at Kamlad ka Magra and a panoramic view of Maharana Fateh Singh's hunting party crossing a river, each in the collection of the Udaipur City Palace Museum (acc. nos. 2010.T.0013 and 2010.T.0006, and published in a section on Shivalal in J. Guy and J. Britschgi, Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900, New York, 2011, pp.198-199, nos.107 and 108).
The present painting is dated by inscription to the month of Pausha in samvat 1938/1881 CE and ascribed to the court artist Shivalal. The extensive inscription also identifies each of the many courtiers striding alongside Sajjan Singh. The artist Shivalal is the son of the well-recognized painter Tara. His brother, Mohanlal, worked for the court in a novel role as a photographer. Shivalal is known to have collaborated with Tara on at least one occasion under the reign of Maharana Swarup Singh (r.1841-1861) in 1858. The artist is most well known for his expansive depictions of hunting scenes, particularly for the natural topographic features he would include while painting on site. He also experimented with the new medium of photography, coloring albumen prints often captured in his brother's photokhana. The brothers continued to work under Sajjan Singh's successor, Maharana Fateh Singh; however, the increasingly available medium of photography, and the realism and immediacy it brought with it, ultimately took over the role of traditional court painting in Mewar.
A portrait of Maharana Swarup Singh attributed to Shivalal from the Ann and Gordan Getty Collection sold at Christie's New York, 24 October 2022, lot 1152. Two later paintings by Shivalal, both portraits of Sajjan Singh's successor, Maharana Fateh Singh, dated 1890 and 1893, are published by Andrew Topsfield in The City Palace Museum, Udaipur: Paintings of Mewar Courtly Life, Middletown, NJ, 1990, nos. 45 and 47. Spectacular examples of Shivalal's expertise in topographical landscape are evidenced by a painting of Maharana Fateh Singh hunting at Kamlad ka Magra and a panoramic view of Maharana Fateh Singh's hunting party crossing a river, each in the collection of the Udaipur City Palace Museum (acc. nos. 2010.T.0013 and 2010.T.0006, and published in a section on Shivalal in J. Guy and J. Britschgi, Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900, New York, 2011, pp.198-199, nos.107 and 108).