Observe the image and answer the following question.
Identify the painting in the image and its painter.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Group of Courtesans by Ghulam Ali Khan
The painting shown is Group of Courtesans by Ghulam Ali Khan, a Company Painting. The other options are real works of the period: Krishna as envoy is by Raja Ravi Varma, Rama’s marriage is by K. Venkatappa and Camels is by Amrita Sher-Gil.
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): “Company Painting …The paintings were largely made on paper by local artists, some of whom had migrated from erstwhile courts of Murshidabad, Lucknow or Delhi. …It is this mixture of traditional and European style of painting that came to be known as the Company School of Painting.”
“Ghulam Ali Khan, Group of Courtesans, Company Painting, 1800–1825. San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA” |
