Maharana Sajjan Singh (règne 1874-1884) assis dans le darbâr avec des nobles et des serviteurs pendant un orage célébrant avec des guirlandes, une peinture de la série des Six Saisons Shadritu, Udaipur, vers 1874 A painting from a Six Seasons (shadritu) Series, depicting Maharana Sajjan Singh (reg. 1874-1884) seated in durbar with noblemen and attendants celebrating with garlands of flowers, a thunderstorm overhead Udaipur, circa 1874 gouache and gold on paper, border with gilt floral motifs on a brown ground, verso 17 lines of poetic text in nagari script in black ink with some words highlighted in gold and black 262 x 312 mm. Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, Germany. An illustration from a manuscript of the Six Seasons (shadritu) which depicts the Maharana in his various activities during the changing seasons, and the change in activity that each season brings. The genre is related to the Baramasa series, which focuses on the behaviour of lovers in different seasons. Sajjan Singh was a poet and the poem on the reverse is probably his own composition. Paintings of his reign are rare: Topsfield (p. 283) estimates that only seventy are recorded in the royal paintings inventory. The geometric formality of composition and the finely detailed flower beds are in continuation of the style of Tara (fl. 1836-68). It has been suggested that this painting can possibly be attributed to Tara's son Shivalal. See: A. Topsfield, Court Painting of Udaipur, Zurich 2001, pp. 280-284. L. V. Habighorst, Blumen. Baeume. Goettergaerten, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz 2011, pp. 17-21, fig. 5. Prahlad Bubbar, Indian Painting and Photographs 1590-1900, London, November 2012, pp. 48-59, nos. 13-15. For examples offered in these rooms, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 7th October 2014, lot 334; 24th April 2018, lot 342. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing