{"product_id":"mewar_painting__maharana_sangram_singh_riding_a_prize_stallion","title":"Maharana Sangram Singh II Riding a Prize Stallion – Mewar School","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMaharana Sangram Singh II Riding a Prize Stallion by the Mewar School, early 18th century\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFramed Canvas Art\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eRajput court miniature\u003c\/em\u003e presents \u003cstrong\u003eMaharana Sangram Singh II\u003c\/strong\u003e mounted on a magnificent black stallion rearing with controlled energy, its glossy coat rendered in deep carbon black that anchors the entire composition. The Maharana wears an elaborate \u003cstrong\u003egold-patterned jama\u003c\/strong\u003e against which his emerald sash reads with precise decorative clarity; a \u003cstrong\u003efeathered turban\u003c\/strong\u003e crowns his head, and a radiant nimbus of golden light, the conventional divine halo of Mewar royal iconography, encircles it. He carries a long spear and, at his hip, a brace of arrows bound in red thread; the quiver and its contents are rendered with the meticulous linework characteristic of the Udaipur atelier. A dark-complexioned attendant walks at pace beside the stallion, his posture deferential, his red turban and white dhoti providing a tonal contrast that reinforces the hierarchy of the composition. The warm ochre ground, the flat acid-green landscape strip, and the scattered Devanagari inscription in the lower right corner are all hallmarks of \u003cem\u003eMewar School\u003c\/em\u003e output from the reign of Sangram Singh II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe painting was produced by an anonymous artist of the \u003cem\u003eMewar School\u003c\/em\u003e, the royal court atelier based at Udaipur in Rajasthan, during the early eighteenth century, most likely within the reign of Maharana Sangram Singh II, who ruled the kingdom of Mewar from 1710 to 1734. Mewar had one of the longest continuous traditions of \u003cem\u003eRajput miniature painting\u003c\/em\u003e, stretching back to the sixteenth century, and by Sangram Singh II's reign the workshop had reached a period of confident, codified splendor: compositions grew more formal, the palette more saturated, and equestrian royal portraits became a favored genre for asserting dynastic legitimacy and personal valor. The Maharana is shown not in battle but on ceremonial display, an image of sovereign power expressed through the mastery of a prize horse; this distinction between martial readiness and courtly magnificence is precisely the message such commissions were designed to project. Works from this period and atelier are held in major collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, and they have been widely studied as evidence of Mewar's political self-representation through visual art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanvas Classics reproduces \u003cstrong\u003eMaharana Sangram Singh II Riding a Prize Stallion\u003c\/strong\u003e from a high-resolution museum scan that has been digitally restored to recover the full tonal range of the original opaque watercolour on paper: a range that runs from the near-matte black of the stallion's haunches through the layered warm golds of the Maharana's robe to the pale, luminous ochre of the background field. Our archival giclee process on museum-grade cotton canvas preserves the crisp, controlled linework that defines the horse's musculature and the attendant's facial features, as well as the fine decorative patterning of the jama that lesser reproductions reduce to an indistinct blur. The subtle shift between the cool green of the ground plane and the warm amber sky (a transition that gives the composition its sense of shallow, jewel-box depth) is maintained with color fidelity that poster-grade printing cannot match. Our ornate composite frame, finished in warm gold leaf tones, mirrors the gilded halo and decorative borders of the original court tradition, presenting this image of Mewar royal authority exactly as the workshop intended: as an object worthy of sustained, close attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CanvasClassics","offers":[{"title":"Small (20 x 19) \/ Gold","offer_id":49110709371115,"sku":"2060111","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small (20 x 19) \/ Silver","offer_id":49110709403883,"sku":"2060112","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small (20 x 19) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49110709436651,"sku":"2060113","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (30 x 28) \/ Gold","offer_id":49110709469419,"sku":"2060121","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (30 x 28) \/ Silver","offer_id":49110709502187,"sku":"2060122","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (30 x 28) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49110709534955,"sku":"2060123","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (33 x 31) \/ Gold","offer_id":49110709567723,"sku":"2060131","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (33 x 31) \/ Silver","offer_id":49110709600491,"sku":"2060132","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (33 x 31) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49110709633259,"sku":"2060133","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (43 x 40) \/ Gold","offer_id":49110709666027,"sku":"2060141","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (43 x 40) \/ Silver","offer_id":49110709698795,"sku":"2060142","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (43 x 40) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":49110709731563,"sku":"2060143","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8606\/6923\/files\/mewar_painting__maharana_sangram_singh_riding_a_prize_stallion__small__gold.jpg?v=1785028513","url":"https:\/\/canvasclassics.shop\/products\/mewar_painting__maharana_sangram_singh_riding_a_prize_stallion","provider":"Canvas Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}