Raja Bikram Singh of Guler smoking a hookah

Cleveland Museum of Art

Raja Bikram Singh of Guler smoking a hookah

Date
c. 1678–90
Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Culture
Northern India, Pahari kingdoms, Himachal Pradesh
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
314140

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The portrait of Raja Bikram Singh is the earliest depiction of a Guler chief and was produced in Chamba, possibly under the patronage of Raja Chattar Singh (r. 1664–90). The painting bears several features of early portraiture in Chamba—a straight Hookah pipe, striped trousers, large bolsters, and the sitting posture of the raja. Raja Bikram Singh was famed for his physical strength and could break a coconut into pieces with his fingers

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Credit line
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance
?–1975: Abdur Rehman Chughtai, Lahore, Pakistan | until?: Muhammad Abdullah Chughtai, Lahore and New York | ?–1984: Doris Wiener Ltd., New York, NY | 1984–2018: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Los Angeles | 2018–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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