In which medium was the Mughal painting Madonna and Child done?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Opaque watercolour on paper
Option (1) Oil on canvas — Incorrect. This painting was done in watercolour, not in oil paint on canvas.
Option (2) Opaque watercolour on paper — Correct. Madonna and Child was done in opaque watercolour on paper, an important early work of the Mughal School.
Option (3) Opaque watercolour on cloth — Incorrect. Cloth with paper at the back was the base surface of the Hamza Nama folios, not of this painting.
Option (4) Fresco on lime plaster — Incorrect. Fresco is painting on a plastered wall, while this is a painting on paper.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Early Mughal Painting …In most of the paintings, produced from the time that the Europeans were in contact with the court of Akbar, we can see an increasing preference for a category of naturalism adapted to compliment the growing diversity in medieval India. Madonna and Child (1580) done in opaque watercolour on paper is an important early work of the Mughal School of Painting in this context.”
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