Observe the image and answer the following question.
Identify the painting in the image:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Princes of the House of Timur
The painting shown is Princes of the House of Timur, probably by the Safavid artist Abd us Samad. It is a large early Mughal work in opaque watercolour on cotton, showing the ancestral members of the Mughal dynasty in an open-air scene with trees and blossoms.
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 …When we look at an extraordinary Mughal painting from the early period, Princes of the House of Timur (1545–50), probably by Safavid artist, Abd us Samad, in opaque watercolour on cotton, we are surprised by its size and complex structure and display of historical portraits. A prized possession of the imperial family, it has portraits that were painted over the original to register the portraits of successive members of the Mughal dynasty.…”
Princes of the House of Timur, Abd us Samad, 1545–50, British Museum, London |
