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1700 (ca.), Stipple Master (attributed), Maharana Amar Singh Hunting Sarus Cranes [watercolor] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the exhibition label: The artist known as the Stipple Master of Udaipur was active under the patronage of Amar Singh II (r. 1698-1710) and continued working into the reign of Sangram Singh (r. 1710-34). ... [This] painting -- a visual celebration of an expedition undertaken by Amar Singh II himself -- is one of the earliest Rajput paintings devoted to hawking. The maharaja, mounted on his chestnut stallion, raises his gloved hand to support the bird of prey, which is already unhooded and awaiting the order to strike. Three of his huntsmen (shikaris) point toward the nesting and circling flock of sarus cranes. The hawk is next seen in the upper landscape and then the third, where it attacks a crane and brings it down in the lake.
1700 (ca.), Stipple Master (attributed), Maharana Amar Singh Hunting Sarus Cranes [watercolor] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the exhibition label: The artist known as the Stipple Master of Udaipur was active under the patronage of Amar Singh II (r. 1698-1710) and continued working into the reign of Sangram Singh (r. 1710-34). ... [This] painting -- a visual celebration of an expedition undertaken by Amar Singh II himself -- is one of the earliest Rajput paintings devoted to hawking. The maharaja, mounted on his chestnut stallion, raises his gloved hand to support the bird of prey, which is already unhooded and awaiting the order to strike. Three of his huntsmen (shikaris) point toward the nesting and circling flock of sarus cranes. The hawk is next seen in the upper landscape and then the third, where it attacks a crane and brings it down in the lake.