Darbar Mirza Maharai Lakhpatiji
date: label: Date
content: 1750
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Nagaur school
label: Description
content: The setting is a huge, open marble terrace, set bedside a lush arbor-filled garden. A large summer white carpet is patterned with bold flowers in a trellis shape with metal derived lozenge-shaped images interspersed. The Kutch retinue of nobles sits on this carpet on the left side, while the Nagaur visitors sit on the right side. The chief Mahant of Kutch, dressed in salmon robes, joins the left side assembly. A multi-floral burgundy-based smaller carpet has been placed on top of this white carpet, and a smaller still yellow cotton dhurrie sits on top of the burgundy carpet. It is upon this that the two royals are seated against burgundy bolsters. A hexagonal shaminana, boldly designed with gold floral designs on red velvet, shelters them from the sun.
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso in mixed Gujarati and Devanagari: Bakhat Singhji, Rao Shri Lakhpatji, Rao Shri
label: Provenance
content: From at least 1977
label: Provenance
content: Fuest, Heidelberg [1]
label: Provenance
content: From at least 1983
label: Provenance
content: Dr. and Mr. O.C. Kirsch, Heidelberg [2]
label: Provenance
content: 2004
label: Provenance
content: Sale, London, Francesca Galloway, Indian Miniatures and Works of Art, autumn 2004, lot 7: “Meeting between Lakhpatji & Bakhat Singh” [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 2004 to 2018
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, purchased at auction, “Indian Miniatures and Works of Art,” Francesca Galloway, London, lot no. 7, “Meeting between Lakhpatji & Bakhat Singh” in July 2004 [4]
label: Provenance
content: From 2018
label: Provenance
content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim [5]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to B.N. Goswamy, he saw the painting in a Heidelberg gallery in 1977. The gallery was called Fuest, and was owned by Mr. Fuest. Later Mr. Fuest closed the gallery and moved to either Australia or New Zealand.
label: Provenance
content: [2] According to Goswamy, B.N. and A. Dallapiccola, A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch 1720-1820, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 75, plate VI.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See auction catalogue from the sale in London. Francesca Galloway, Indian Miniatures and Works of Art, autumn 2004, lot 7: “Meeting between Lakhpatji & Bakhat Singh.”
label: Provenance
content: [4] See note 3.
label: Provenance
content: [5] See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file, Collections Management Office.
label: Collection
content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Fuest
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Dr. and Mrs. O. C. Kirsch
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Francesca Galloway, Ltd. (established 1992)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
place: label: Origin
content: Nagaur, Rajasthan state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: portrait
label: Topic
content: man
label: Topic
content: fan
label: Topic
content: courtier
label: Topic
content: India
label: Topic
content: ruler
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
label: Topic
content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
setName: label: See more items in
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: S2018.1.59
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 48.3 × 68 cm (19 × 26 3/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 68.6 × 88.9 cm (27 × 35 in)