Observe the image and answer the following question.

Observe the painting in the image. In which colour is the sky of this painting described?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Golden blue
This is Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II hawking.
Option (1) Golden blue — Correct. Its sky is described as a sunlit golden blue sky.
Option (2) Cobalt blue — Incorrect. Cobalt blue is named among the colours of the forest foliage, not the sky.
Option (3) Gold and blue bands — Incorrect. Skies in gold and blue in separate bands mark the illustrated manuscript of a Sufi poem, not this painting.
Option (4) Brown and blue — Incorrect. Shades of brown and some blue form the colour schema of Composite Horse.
NCERT (2026-27): “Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II hawking This is a painting of extraordinary energy and sensibility. …Besides, the dark dense forest foliage, deep olive green, emerald green and cobalt blue with cranes in the background and sunlit golden blue sky enhance the experience of the painting and its narrative, which brings the white hawk to the centrestage along with the delicately portrayed face of the sultan.”
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