Tiger Hunt of Ram Singh II
1835
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1835
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Tiger Hunt of Ram Singh II is a 1835 unspecified by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a king on horseback shooting a tiger while men wave fire and scare off bears. Women and musicians watch from boats in a river below rocky cliffs. This painting shows a royal hunt in Kota, a small kingdom in India. The artist packed the scene with action—fire, animals, and people—all in bright, flat colors. It wasn’t meant to look real, just to tell the story of the king’s power. To see more like this, look up the Rajput kingdom of Kota.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the cliffs that define the landscape of the small princely kingdom of Kota, a majestic tiger has just been shot by the king. Noisemakers with a firebrand drive the tiger out of the forest, and men at the right keep bears at bay. The women and musicians in two small boats look on in admiration.
The drummers and horn blowers proclaim to the population that the king shot a tiger.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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