Untitled
1760
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1760
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1760 paint by Hunhar, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a grand terrace lit by candelabras, with colorful pavilions and gardens fading into the distance. A group of nearly naked ascetics and a white-robed Jain nun stand out in the scene. The painting mixes Mughal style with Lucknow details like the bright fabrics and careful gardens. This blend of royal celebration and spiritual figures makes it unusual. The artist moved from Delhi to Lucknow, so this work shows that shift. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of these Lucknow paintings.
The work is an opaque watercolor and gold painting on paper depicting a princess and attendants celebrating Diwali in a palace courtyard illuminated by candelabras, with terraces, pavilions, and gardens receding into the distance. It includes unusual elements such as a group of semi-naked ascetics and a Jain nun in white robes. The artist, originally associated with the Mughal court in Delhi, later worked in Murshidabad and Lucknow.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Hunhar painted delicate floral scenes from the mid-1700s, a time when Indian artists blended Persian detail with Rajput color.
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