Maharaja Ranjit Singh
1835
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1835
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Maharaja Ranjit Singh is a 1835 paint by Unknown, a company_painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a man riding a white horse through a landscape with flowers. He's wearing saffron-colored clothes and has long ropes of pearls around his neck. The horse is decorated with gold chains and jewels. The man in the painting is Maharaja Ranjit Singh, a historical figure who ruled a region in the far north of the Indian subcontinent. He's shown in a scene that looks like a celebration or a parade. To learn more about the style of this painting, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
