Collection of Dr. William K. Ehrenfeld (1ꦆ934-2005), San Francisco.

Acquired directly from the Ehrenfeld collection by the🥂 current owner, 8t🌸h December 1988.

Daniel Ehnbom, Indian Miniatures: The Ehrenfeld Collection, New York, 1985, cat. no. 115.

Indian Miniatures from the Ehrenfeld Collection, The American Federation of the Arts, New York

September 1985 - March 1988.

Mahar🐼aja Sa⛎nsar Chand (r.1775-1823) of Kangra is depicted seated against a yellow floral pattern bolster set on a

matching yello💙w carpet - holdi💝ng his falcon on his gloved right hand. He is smoking the long stem of

his hukkah as it winds diagonally through the lower half of the com🀅position. The raja is ♈surrounded by

courtiers and attenꦯdants - two waving a chauri and a morchal (ceremonial flywhisks) as he receives two

petitioning ministers.

Although our painting is unin🅘scribed, the scholar Daniel Ehnbom (1985) has tentatively identifi🏅ed the

participa🐽nts behind Sansar Chand as members of his court. In the darker clothes behind the raja is

likely his vizier Labha aඣnd below in yellow is the raja's younger brother Mana Chand (b. 1770).