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| Keywords: Nilgai (blue bull).jpg object history credit line Purchase Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift 1955 Mansur the wonder of the age began his career in Akbar's atelier but perfected his extraordinary natural-history painting during Jahangir's reign He became the emperor's constant traveling companion in order to record visually the natural phenomena that fascinated his master As Jahangir wrote in his diary his great-grandfather Babur had only described what he saw while he himself also ordered drawings to be made of the things he wrote about so that the amazement that arose from hearing of them might be increased This subtly colored study of a bull antelope or nilgai is a taxonomically correct portrait of a particular animal note the broken horn It also conveys the texture of the creature's fur bone horn and flesh as well as its gentle spirit which radiates from the glassy eye and contented expression Although the background is barely indicated the contour of the nilgai is so beautifully modulated that the animal's form interacts seamlessly with the space surrounding it accession number 55 121 10 13 Leaf from the Shah Jahan Album http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/140008569 http //www metmuseum org/toah/works-of-art/55 121 10 13 PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Antelopes in art Ustad Mansur | ||||
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