Cleveland Museum of Art

Maharaja Chattarsol of Kota Shooting Lions

Date

c. 1860

Medium

Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

Culture

Northwest India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Kota

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The trope of a royal marksman shooting at a pair of lions drinking at a pond extended into the second half of the 1800s at the Kota court. This suggests that earlier examples of this theme were prized and remembered for generations. By the time this painting was made, artists had access to synthetic pigments that were developed in the West, and more brilliant blues and greens distinguish a work such as this from its predecessors.

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