Umed Singh of Kota Hunting Lions
1788
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1788
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Umed Singh of Kota Hunting Lions is a 1788 unspecified by Unknown, a Patna School of Painting work, depicting Kota, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a royal hunting party sneaking through dense jungle, spears and bows ready, while two adult lions and their cubs turn in alarm at the sound of a horn. This painting was likely a practice sketch—Indian artists often made quick studies like this before creating a final, polished work. The camouflaged hunters and tense moment show how carefully the scene was planned. To see more scenes like this, look up *india, rajasthan, kota, 18th century*.
A family of lions with two cubs is caught unawares by royal huntsmen amid a tangle of jungle by the side of a stream. The adult lions twist around, startled by the sound of the horn intended to drive them out of the safety of their glade. The men, other than the ruler at the left, have turbans camouflaged with leaves, and they surround the lions, ready to let spears and arrows fly. Before embarking on a costly finished painting, Indian artists often made preparatory sketches, in which they worked out the particulars of the composition. Whiter sections indicate areas where erasures and…
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