Maharaja Bijay Singh in His Harem

The painting features a portrait of a ruler, identified by the inscription as “Maharaja Fateh Singh of Jodhpur”. However, there is no record of such a ruler for the Jodphur State, ...

Occupying the center of this painting is a princely youth, identified by Naveen Patnaik as Tukaji Rao Holkar II (1836-86). The young maharaja is seated in durbar on a low, red uph...

The painting depicts the horse of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (r. 1801-1839), the first maharaja of the Sikhs of the Punjab. The caparisoned horse is white, gray, and dappled. A groomsma...

The painting depicts Maharaja Ajit Singh of Marwar (r. 1679-1724) enthroned. He wears a gold robe (jama) and is bedecked with jewelry. He wears an ornamented turban with a large bl...

In this portrait, Maharaja Kumar Sawant Singh, ruler of Kishangarh (r. 1748–57), stands on a white terrace amid beds of pink roses in full bloom. He was also a poet, under the pen ...

A young Raja Ram Singh (b. 1861-1899) is depicted at the center of the image. He wears a red and gold turban with a large plume and an elaborate turban ornament (sarpech) that is s...

The drawing depicts the Maharaja of Kota under a canopy. He holds a large shield in his lap and seated against a large bolster. The halo surrounding his head denotes his divinely-s...

A haloed and bejeweled Mokham Singh (r. 1838–41), maharaja of Kishangarh in the central region of Rajasthan, receives his courtiers on a terrace overlooking a serene lake edged by ...