Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat (c. 1720): Art, History and Details
Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1720, Gum tempera and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat (c. 1720) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.
Object facts
- Title: Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat
- Date: c. 1720
- Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Rajput Kingdom of Jodhpur
- Type: Painting
- Technique: Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Miniature: 31.8 x 22.2 cm (12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection: Indian Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 2018.196
A detail from the museum
Rao Shiv Singh’s granddaughter was married to Maharaja Pratap Singh of Jaipur (CMA 2011.207).
Collection credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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