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Maharana Jagat Singh II presenting pan. By Sukha. Gouache and gold on paper. Circa 1756. Leaf 35.5cm by 24.5cm; image 30cm by 19.6cm.

This portrait of Maharana Jagat Singh II shows him presenting pan to a courtier as a polite token of dismissal from his presence.  The inscription names Jagat Singh and gives the name of the artist Sukho (Sukha), and a date in the month of Sravan, Samvat year 1813 (1756AD).  This suggests it is a posthumous portrait, perhaps based on an earlier example, as Jagat Singh died five years earlier than this.

The same artist is responsible for portraits of Jagat Singh in Topsfield, A., Museums of India, The City Palace Museum Udaipur. Paintings of Mewar Court Life. 1990 (no. 11); Topsfield, A The City Palace Museum Udaipur, Paintings of Mewar Court Life. 1990, no.s. 11 (the Rana attending an elephant fight), 14 (Maharana Pratap Singh), and 16 (Maharana Raj Singh). There is evidence of other paintings by Sukha in Topsfield, A Court Painting at Udaipur. Art under the patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar, 2001, p. 190 and 194. An unusual painting in vertical format of Jagat Singh with his queens, by Sukha, is in Indian Paintings and drawings from the collection of Howard Hodgkin, Topsfield, A & Beach, M 1991, no.39.