Artwork
Untitled
Untitled is a watercolor painting. It dates from 1461 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
The piece is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains part of the museum's collection of South Asian religious paintings.
The painting, titled Untitled, is a religious work created in India in 1461 using ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. The artist is recorded as unknown, and the composition belongs to the broader tradition of religious art, though the specific narrative or figures depicted are not identified in the sources. Its formal qualities, ink line work, layered pigments, and gold accents, contribute to a devotional visual language typical of its period.
The piece is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains part of the museum's collection of South Asian religious paintings.
Technique & Style
The work is executed in ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, a combination typical of manuscript illumination and devotional painting traditions in 15th-century India. Its modest dimensions (11.1 × 25.7 cm) suggest it functioned as a small-scale devotional image or as part of a larger manuscript. The application of gold alongside opaque watercolor indicates a rich, luminous surface intended to convey sacred significance, while the ink underdrawing would have provided precise linear definition characteristic of the period's religious art.
History & Provenance
The work is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. No specific inventory or accession number is provided in the available sources, and no exhibition history is documented.
Overview
The work, titled Untitled, combines ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. A compact block of black‑ink script fills the left side of the sheet, while a small painted scene occupies the right, enclosed by a red border. The image depicts a woman in a blue dress holding a fan, seated on a chair beside a low table, set against a gold‑and‑red patterned floor.
Artist & collection
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Jain Manuscript: Kalakacarya Katha (folio 6)
Parshva Undergoes Physical Trials, Folio 46 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
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Kalpa-sutra Manuscript with 24 Miniatures: Birth of Rsabhanatha
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Kalpa-sutra Manuscript with 24 Miniatures: Folio 60, text (recto); Sthulabhadra as a Lion (verso)
Parshva Undergoes Physical Trials, Folio 46 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Kalpa-sutra Manuscript with 24 Miniatures: Siddhartha Hears the Recitation of Trisala's Dreams
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