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Stipple Master

ca. 1705 · Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper · Asian Art

The semi-colored drawing technique seen here, a cross between grisalle tonal drawing—known in the Mughal tradition as nim qalam—and watercolor, developed at Udaipur and is associated with a master painter in the service of Amar Singh II and Sangram Singh II in the early eighteenth century. The style of this anonymous artist, called the Stipple Master, remained a singular phenomenon at that court. He devoted himself exclusively to painting portraits of his patrons.

Artist

Stipple Master

Date

ca. 1705

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

Culture

India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2003