In this pleasingly compact and symmetrical composition, the minor nobleman Sagat Singh, son of Takhat Singh, sits smoking a hookah after his devotions or bath, within a domed pavilion beside a lotus pond.
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 43/4, (Winter 1997-1998), p. 30, illus. p. 29 fig. 16
Topsfield, Andrew, Court Painting at Udaipur: Art Under the Patronage of the Maharanas, Artibus Asiae Supplementum, 44 (Zurich: Artibus Asiae, 2002), fig. 168
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