Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of Rao Shiv Singh Chandrawat
- Date
- c. 1720
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Rajput Kingdom of Jodhpur
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The bust portrait of a Rajput ruler shows him wearing a blue turban with floral pattern and white garment. A costly pearl and ruby earring suggests his financial affluence. The artist has exhibited his skill in the sensitive rendering of the figure’s eyebrow and mustache. Rao Shiv Singh’s granddaughter was married to Maharaja Pratap Singh of Jaipur (CMA 2011.207).
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