Creator not recorded
- Material / technique
- Ink and opaque watercolour on paper
- Attribution / role
- Related school context · maker not recorded
- Collection / source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artwork notes
Related Kishangarh context: the museum discusses Nihal Chand’s style, but does not name a maker in this object’s attribution.
Materials, marks and colour
Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.
Media and surface
Fine paper painting makes small changes of outline highly visible.
Marks and structure
Long eyes and carefully curved profiles can express a literary ideal of beauty.
Palette and light
Clear colour areas, pale architecture and landscape organise intimacy and distance.