A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses
Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
ca. 1845 · Opaque watercolor on paper · Islamic Art
Many of the East India Company officers who commissioned paintings during the nineteenth century sought a visual record of their own households, including animals, possessions, and servants. Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya specialized in such paintings and depicted these subjects with a naturalism that is both dignified and poetic. In this work the artist has painted a syce, or groom, symmetrically flanked by almost identical horses.
- Artist
- Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
- Date
- ca. 1845
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1994
