- Provenance
- Provenance information is currently unavailable
- Previous Owner(s)
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Professor Alban G. Widgery
- Label
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During the reign of Maharana Amar Singh, Mewar painters added royal portraits and grisaille painting to the Mewar canon. They produced numerous grisaille paintings of the king with ladies in royal gardens. Here, understated tonalities convey a romantic mood with great economy of means. The grisaille style was in all likelihood adopted from the Deccan or Mughal courts, where such nim qalam paintings were popular in the 17th century. The beak-nosed profiles and large lotus eyes of the ladies are typical of Mewar painting of this period.
- Collection Area(s)
- South Asian and Himalayan Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Rights Statement
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Copyright with museum
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