Raj Singh II attending a night entertainment in the palace, Udaipur, India, about 1755. Opaque watercolour on paper.
Height 47.2 cm x Width 41.4 cm. Museum no. IS. 77-1990.

Raj Singh II of Mewar (Udaipur) in Rajasthan came to the throne in 1754. At this time he was only ten years old. In this large painting he appears with a halo denoting his status as ruler and seems to be only ten or eleven years old. He and his nobles are being entertained by dancers and musicians. They are in an inner courtyard of the City Palace in Udaipur, which still has the distinctive black and white stone flooring slabs around the central garden and pond. No paintings survive from Raj Singh's reign that date from later than 1756. He died aged only seventeen in 1761.

Source : V&A, London