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Elephant and Two Riders Hunting Rhinoceros (fragment)
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This painting fragment depicts a dynamic hunting scene. On top of a large, striding, caparisoned elephant are two riders. Perpendicular to the elephant is a young rhinoceros pierced by white arrows. Rajput Style.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift in gratitude to John Coolidge Gift of Leslie Cheek Jr. Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg Louise Haskell Daly Alpheus Hyatt Richard Norton Memorial Funds and through the generosity of Albert H. Gordon and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch Jr.
Title: Elephant and Two Riders Hunting Rhinoceros (fragment)
Description:
This painting fragment depicts a dynamic hunting scene.
On top of a large, striding, caparisoned elephant are two riders.
Perpendicular to the elephant is a young rhinoceros pierced by white arrows.
Rajput Style.
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