Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Colors in this work

Artist: Unknown artist
Date: Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), c. 1600
Medium: Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Image: 23.4 × 16.6 cm (9 3/16 × 6 1/2 in.); Outermost Border: 37.9 × 25.6 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Paper: 37.9 × 25.6 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Origin: India
Holding institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7B6D54 · 23%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #454F5D · 21%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #C9AB83 · 16%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #968563 · 9%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #B08C54 · 9%

Faded Gilt · Yellow family · #AF9874 · 7%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #F1E2C6 · 4%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #7A96B4 · 4%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #564E42 · 3%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #9FAFBB · 2%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #515F61 · 1%

Clay Tablet · Brown family · #7E695E · <1%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #D19746 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #907270 · <1%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #37291B · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #6E7768 · <1%

Azurite Panel · Blue family · #3967A3 · <1%

Madder Blush · Pink family · #1D0D17 · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection

12 tags

Animals Both · 100%

A single goat is the central visible subject, and the catalog title and subject list identify the work as depicting a Ladakhi mountain goat and animals.
Animal Portrait Both · 100%

The goat is presented singly in a deliberate profile view, and the catalog title explicitly identifies the work as a portrait.

Patterns Visual · 99%

Repeated floral and foliate motifs organize the dark blue outer border and the surrounding decorative bands.
Highly Ornamented Visual · 99%

The page is richly decorated with extensive floral ornament, nested borders, and embellished calligraphic panels.
Highly Detailed Visual · 97%

The goat, plants, script, and border motifs are rendered with sustained fine detail across the sheet.
Calligraphic Visual · 99%

The upper and lower sections visibly contain carefully arranged calligraphic writing.

Painting Both · 100%

The object is visibly a painted image, and the catalog classifies it as Painting with opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper.
Watercolor Metadata · 100%

The catalog specifies opaque watercolor as a medium.
Work on Paper Both · 100%

The work is visibly presented on a decorated rectangular sheet, and the catalog identifies paper as the support.

17th Century Art Metadata · 92%

The structured catalog dates are 1601–1625, placing the work in the seventeenth century, although the display date reads c. 1600.

Indian Art Metadata · 100%

The catalog gives India as the place of origin and in the artist display.

Gold Both · 99%

Gold-colored ornament is clearly visible throughout the border and decorative panels, and the catalog explicitly lists gold in the medium.

anonymous. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76868

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