Image source: metmuseum.org
Maharao Umed Singh hunting tigers
Artist:Bundi/Kota School
| Support Type: | Paper |
| Paint Type: | Watercolor |
| Current Location: | Kota, Rajasthan , India |
Royal hunts were symbolically important expressions of kingship within the Ancient Near East, Persia and India. Beginning around 1660, artists in Kota began creating extraordinary images of rulers hunting game, which through to the mid-eighteenth century deployed calligraphic contour lines to render animals with great vivacity in highly textured landscapes. This later hunt scene deploys solid blocks of color - lavender, salmon, orange and teal - that play off the textured sage greens of the forest. The composition demands that the viewer search through the foliage for a tiger represented multiple times in a way that perhaps evokes the act of looking for game in the jungle.
Information Compiled by
Angshita Ganguly