Prince Kanju Ram
1700
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1700
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Prince Kanju Ram is a 1700 paint by Wajid, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows two groups of men in bright, patterned clothes sitting on a red carpet. One group has a man playing a flute while others listen, and the other group has men holding pipes and talking. The background is green with a red border, and there’s a small decorated box in the first scene. The colors are bold—lots of reds, greens, and golds—and the men wear turbans and jewelry. The scene looks like a mix of music and conversation, with some men standing and others sitting. Look up Baroque to see how this style fits into bigger art trends.
The painting depicts Prince Kanju Ram of Isarda in Rajasthan, shown reclining on a bolster while smoking a huqqa, with a servant holding a morchhal positioned behind him. Six nobles face the prince, each holding flowers and armed with swords and shields, while a second group of eight attendants and nobles occupies the lower register, also holding flowers. The composition features a verdigris background, darker in the upper section and lighter below, framed by a red border. The work is part of a genealogy of the Jhalai and Isarda families, with related examples noted in other collections and…
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Wajid painted portraits of South Asian royalty in the 1700s, leaving behind works like Prince Kanju Ram.
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