Observe the image and answer the following question.
Identify the painting in the image in the image.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar hawking
Option (1) Maharaja Ram Singh I of Kota hunting lions at Mukundgarh — Incorrect. This is a Kota painting of 1695. Its subject is a lion hunt, not a ruler touring the countryside with his hawks.
Option (2) Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar hawking — Correct. This Mewar folio shows Maharana Jagat Singh II touring the countryside on his way hawking. The land is seen in an oblique view with a raised horizon, which gives a panoramic scene.
Option (3) Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II hawking — Incorrect. This hawking scene belongs to the Deccani school of Bijapur, not to Rajasthan.
Option (4) Raja Aniruddha Singh Hara — Incorrect. Aniruddha Singh (1682–1702) was a ruler of Bundi. The painting shown is a Mewar folio of Jagat Singh II.
NCERT (2026-27): “Mewar School of Painting …Mewar painting in the eighteenth century increasingly became secular and courtly in ambience. Not only an increasing fascination for portraiture emerged but outsized and flamboyant court scenes, hunting expeditions, festivals, zenana activities, sports, etc., were largely favoured as subjects. A folio depics Maharana Jagat Singh II (1734–1752) touring the countryside while on his way hawking. The country scape perceived in an oblique view, with the horizon raised at a tangent in comparison to the foreground enables the artist to visualise a panoramic view of limitless vision.…”
Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar hawking, 1744, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
