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A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses

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Date

c.1845

Artist

Attributed to Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (active 1830-1850)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453354

Description

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. Medium: opaque watercolor on paper.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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