The Piebald Stallion Sadaji and His Groom

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The Piebald Stallion Sadaji and His Groom

c. 1685

Artist/maker unknown, Indian Attributed to Wajid (Indian)

Horses were essential to court life for both transportation and war, so a king's best horses were often memorialized in paintings. It is not surprising that this stallion, identified as Sadaji in an inscription on the reverse, dominates the painting and dwarfs the groom beside him. The artist here employed hieratic scale, an artistic device common to portraits of the royal court, in order to stress the horse's preeminence over the groom. Artists freely and frequently portrayed favored animals of the court.

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Object Details

Titles:

The Piebald Stallion Sadaji and His Groom

Date:

c. 1685

Artists:

Artist/maker unknown, Indian Attributed to Wajid (Indian)

Medium:

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 11 9/16 × 16 3/4 inches (29.4 × 42.5 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

125th Anniversary Acquisition. Alvin O. Bellak Collection, 2004

Accession Number:

2004-149-41

Geography:

Made in Isarda, Rajasthan, India, Asia

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