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Ustad Mansur: Nilgai (blue bull): Leaf from the Shah Jahan Album   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Ustad Mansur  (fl. circa –circa )  wikidata:Q2502664
 
Alternative names
Mansur
Description painter and illuminator
Date of birth/death 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
 after 1624
date QS:P,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work period by 1590
date QS:P,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
-by 1624
date QS:P,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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artist QS:P170,Q2502664
Title
Nilgai (blue bull): Leaf from the Shah Jahan Album
Description

Nilgai (blue bull): Leaf from the Shah Jahan Album, Mughal, period of Jahangir (1605–27), ca. 1620 By Mansur India Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

H. 7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm), W. 9 1/2 in. (24.2 cm)

Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955 (55.121.10.13)
Medium Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions H. 7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm), W. 9 1/2 in. (24.2 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
(55.121.10.13)
Credit line Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955
Notes

Mansur, the "wonder of the age," began his career in Akbar's atelier but perfected his extraordinary natural-history painting during Jahangir's reign. He became the emperor's constant traveling companion in order to record visually the natural phenomena that fascinated his master. As Jahangir wrote in his diary, his great-grandfather Babur had only described what he saw, while he himself also ordered drawings to be made of the things he wrote about, so that "the amazement that arose from hearing of them might be increased."

This subtly colored study of a bull antelope, or nilgai, is a taxonomically correct portrait of a particular animal (note the broken horn). It also conveys the texture of the creature's fur bone, horn, and flesh, as well as its gentle spirit, which radiates from the glassy eye and contented expression. Although the background is barely indicated, the contour of the nilgai is so beautifully modulated that the animal's form interacts seamlessly with the space surrounding it.
References "Mansur: Nilgai (blue bull): Leaf from the Shah Jahan Album (55.121.10.13)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/55.121.10.13 (April 2010)
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