Maharaja Serfoji II在部长陪同下 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Maharaja Serfoji II在部长陪同下
品名（英）	Maharaja Serfoji II accompanied by his Minister
入馆年号	2021年，2021.81a, b
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1790 - 公元 1810
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 23 1/2 × 17 1/4 英寸 (59.7 × 43.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅南印度Thanjavur的Maharaja Serfoji II（"Arabhoji"）（1798-1832年在位）的肖像画是一幅非常罕见的Thanjavur学派晚期风格的大比例画。王公被描绘成20多岁的年轻人，留着英俊的小胡子。他被描绘成站在一个以18世纪后期欧洲肖像画的方式处理的正式室内，以印度肖像画传统上没有的方式直接凝视着观众。背景直接借鉴了欧洲的传统，厚重的金色窗帘和夸张地向后拉的流苏构成了主题的框架。镀金的边桌，一张展示了一个玫瑰水瓶，另一张展示着一个斗篷钟，作为主题的标识，唤起了塞尔福吉所占据的不切实际的世界：一位印度王子在丹麦传教士导师的指导下接受了英国文化习俗的教育，在东印度公司的监督下管理着他的人民。这幅画的第二个版本已经为人所知，是1800年圣王塞尔福吉二世在参观Thanjavur宫时赠送给Henrietta Clive女士的。它现在保存在威尔士的波维斯城堡，克莱夫的祖居。
介绍（英）	This painted portrait of Maharaja Serfoji II (‘Sarabhoji’) (r. 1798-1832) of Thanjavur, South India, is a very rare grand-scaled picture in the late Thanjavur School style. The maharaja is rendered as youthful man in his mid-to-late twenties, sporting a handsome moustache. He is depicted standing in a formal interior treated in the manner of later eighteenth-century European portraiture, gazing directly at the viewer in a manner not traditionally encountered in Indian portraiture. The setting draws directly on European conventions, with heavy drapery with gold trim and tassels drawn back theatrically to frame the subject. Gilded side-tables, one displaying a rosewater bottle and the other a mantle clock, serve as the subject’s identifiers and evoke the quixotic world that Serfoji occupied: an Indian prince educated in English cultural mores by a Danish missionary tutor, governing his people under the watchful eye of the East India Company. A second version of this painting is known, having been gifted by Maharaja Serfoji II to Lady Henrietta Clive on her visit to Thanjavur Palace in 1800. It is now preserved in Powis Castle, Wales, the Clive’s ancestral home.