Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who painted the picture in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Raja Ravi Varma
The painting shown is Krishna as envoy by Raja Ravi Varma of the Travancore Court in Kerala. He used the academic realism he mastered to depict scenes from popular epics.
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): “Raja Ravi Varma …What, However, flourished in the art schools set up by the British was the academic style of oil painting that used a European medium to depict Indian subject matter. The most successful examples of this type of painting were found away from these art schools. They are best seen in the works produced by self-taught artist, Raja Ravi Varma of the Travancore Court in Kerala. By imitating copies of European paintings popular in Indian palaces, he mastered the style of academic realism and used it to depict scenes from popular epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata.”
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