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Elephant and rider
Also titled Olifant met berijder
Keshavdas (1555–1617)
c. 1580 - c. 1590
- Medium
- paper, deck paint, gouache (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 189 mm x width 125 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Gerrit-Jan Verburgt bequest, 1969)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The elephant and rider rest in the shade of a tree. The animal’s legs are chained together to prevent sudden movements. The miniaturist Kesu Das was active in the workshop of the Mughal emperor Akbar. He was a master in the rendering of light on fabric.
