M. Balwant Singh with Colonel Borthwick
date: label: Date
content: dated 1825
name: label: Artist
content: Baijnath
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Devargh or Ratlam school
label: Description
content: Maharaja Balwant Singh of Ratlam in procession with Colonel Borthwick.
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso: “Portrait of Maharaja Balwant Singh of Ratlam after his coronation in procession in the 3rd week of June 1825. Accompanied by his foster-brother Moji. Riding on the second elephant is Colonel Borthwick, resident advisor and on the white horse, the accountant to the Maharaja, Hirachand. And on the dark horse is Kotari, the storekeeper and master of ceremonies. Sheikh Sirdar Mohammad is on the front forward horse.”
label: Provenance
content: From at least 2002
label: Provenance
content: J. Lowell Groves (1914-2008), San Francisco, California [1]
label: Provenance
content: 2009
label: Provenance
content: Sale, San Francisco, Bonhams & Butterfields, Fine Asian Works of Art, June 29, 2009, lot no. 8282 (one of 2), “Two Indian miniature paintings: Mewar” [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 2009 to 2010
label: Provenance
content: Terence McInerney, New York, New York, purchased at auction, “Fine Asian Works of Art,” Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, June 29, 2009, lot 8282 (one of 2): “Two Indian miniature paintings: Mewar” [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 2010 to 2018
label: Provenance
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, purchased from Terence McInerney, New York, New York [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 Andrew Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur: Art Under the Patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar, Zurich: Artibus Asiae Supplementum XLIV, 2002, fig. 214.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See auction catalogue “Fine Asian Works of Art,” Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, June 29, 2009, lot 8282 (one of 2): “Two Indian miniature paintings: Mewar.”
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [4] See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: [5] See note 4.
label: Collection
content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: J. Lowell Groves (1914-2008)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Terence McInerney Fine Arts, Ltd. (active 1990-2013)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)
place: label: Origin
content: Devgarh or Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh state, India
topic: label: Topic
content: man
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: S2018.1.58
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 (painting): 20.3 × 27.3 cm (8 × 10 3/4 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 24 × 30.4 cm (9 7/16 × 12 in)