Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image shows a Rajasthani ruler hunting lions at Mukundgarh in 1695. To which school of painting does it belong?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Kota
Option (1) Bundi — Incorrect. Early Kota painters borrowed from the Bundi repertoire, but this hunt scene is a Kota work of Maharaja Ram Singh I.
Option (2) Bikaner — Incorrect. Bikaner is the school of the kingdom founded by Rao Bika Rathore. It is not the school of this painting.
Option (3) Kota — Correct. The painting shows Maharaja Ram Singh I of Kota hunting lions. Artists of the Kota School excelled in rendering animals and combat.
Option (4) Mewar — Incorrect. Mewar is another Rajasthani school. It is not the school of this hunting scene.
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): “Kota School of Painting …By the reign of Ram Singh I (1686–1708), artists had passionately enlarged their inventory to a large variety of subjects. Kota artists seem to have been the first to render landscape as the real subject of compositions. …Kota paintings are characteristically spontaneous, calligraphic in execution and emphasise on marked shading, especially, the double–lid eye. Artists of the Kota School excelled in rendering animals and combat.”
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