Maharana Amar Singh with his ladies

Gouache with gold on paper.

Maharana Amar Singh (r.1698-1710) enjoys the company of his ladies while smoking his hookah, in three successive scenes representing the pastimes of a single festive day. Above, he watches a nautch girl dancing in an arcaded hall; in the centre he joins the ladies bathing in a palace pool; below, he accompanies them as they gather rose-petals, used in making rose-water, in the Gulab Bari rose-garden.

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