The Cleveland Museum of Art presents the exhibition A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur
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The Cleveland Museum of Art presents the exhibition A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur
Maharana Fateh Singh Crossing a River during the Monsoon, 1893. Shivalal. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; 82.6 × 158.8 cm. The City Palace Museum, Udaipur, 2012.



CLEVELAND, OHIO.- During the 1700s, Udaipur, a royal capital in northwest India, became a destination for the entertainment of political leaders, where its rulers built diplomatic relationships and demonstrated the righteous authority of the court. The kings commissioned a new kind of painting: large-scale depictions of actual events that convey the mood (bhava) of the city’s palaces, lakes, temples, and mountains. Fifty dazzling works on paper and cloth—many on public view for the first time and more than half from the City Palace Museum, Udaipur—invite us to experience this endlessly fascinating kingdom in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur.

Opened yesterday and now on view through September 10, 2023, in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery, the exhibition reveals how artists elicited emotions, depicted scenes through time, celebrated water resources, and fostered personal bonds over some two hundred years in the rapidly changing political and cultural landscapes of early modern South Asia.

“This spectacular show belies the very notion of the ‘Indian miniature’ as an art form that is small in scale,” said CMA Director and President William M. Griswold. “Many of the paintings on view are astonishingly large, vividly evoking the magnificent palaces and vast landscapes that they depict.”

Emphasizing lived experience, A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur also explores how painters creatively manipulated architectural space, mapped terrains, and triggered memories to foster political and personal attachments to the land. The visitor travels from island pleasure palaces to the sprawling City Palace, into the city streets, and to the hunting grounds beyond the city. Audiences will experience the mood of the monsoons and witness how the rulers, through their piety, brought heaven to earth in Udaipur.

This exhibition has been cocurated by Debra Diamond, the Elizabeth Moynihan Curator for South Asian and Southeast Asian Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, and Dipti Khera, associate professor, Department of Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Exhibition Catalogue

A beautifully illustrated 400-page catalogue accompanies A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur and features more than 100 full-color illustrations. The essays aim to address how and why artists used paintings to elicit a sensory experience, express emotion, and depict cultural landscapes in South Asia. Created over a period of two hundred years, extending from Mughal to colonial India, many of the works have never been published or exhibited in the United States. By examining social networks, ecological relations, and pleasurable pursuits, as well as drawing upon previously untranslated sources and engaging with the history of the senses, the catalogue opens early modern art history to new interpretative possibilities.

A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur is organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, in collaboration with the City Palace Museum, Udaipur, administered by the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation.

The National Museum of Asian Art gratefully acknowledges support from exhibition cochairs Farhad and Mary Ebrahimi and Dr. Vijay and Ms. Nanda Anand, along with members of the A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur Leadership Council.

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s presentation of A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur is made possible with principal support from Raj and Karen Aggarwal. Additional support is provided by Anne T. and Donald F. Palmer.

June 11 through September 10, 2023










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