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A WILD BOAR HUNT<br />

UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>,<br />

CIRCA 1760-80<br />

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper,<br />

the maharaja and his companions sit within a fort,<br />

he shoots wild boars through one of the fort’s<br />

windows, a forested landscape around, his retinue<br />

with hunting dogs, horse and palanquin in the<br />

background, under a moonlit sky, with red borders<br />

and black rules, the reverse with a line of black<br />

devanagari script<br />

11√ x 18in. (30.2 x 45.5cm.)<br />

£8,000-12,000 $12,000-17,000<br />

€10,000-15,000<br />

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This painting most probably depicts a hunting<br />

expedition of Maharana Ari Singh II of Mewar<br />

(r. 1762-72). It is closely related to a further<br />

hunting scene which sold at Christie’s, London,<br />

9 October 2014, lot 155.<br />

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