Page from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace Scene
The high quality of the drawings on this page suggests it was the product of one of the Seu family masters. The rendering of the various subjects, especially the horse and boars in motion, has a spontaneity and freshness of line rarely seen in finished paintings from this school.
Artwork Details
- Title: Page from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace Scene
- Artist: Attributed to Pandit Seu (Indian)
- Artist: or attributed to Manaku (Indian, active ca. 1725–60)
- Date: late 18th century
- Culture: India (Pahari Hills, Guler)
- Medium: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: Image (sight): 6 1/4 x 5 5/8 in. (15.9 x 14.3 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008
- Object Number: 2008.359.9
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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