# Portrait of a Raja, probably Raja Dhrub Dev of Jasrota

- Date: ca.1690-1700
- Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 19.7 × 15.7 cm (7 3/4 × 6 3/16 in)
- Culture: Himalayan peoples
- Credit line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/S2018.1.6/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/75427d46590780263af62c9f4f958117.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Portraits of Dhrub Dev with his distinctive high beaked nose were produced by painters from Mankot, Jasrota and Jammu. In the manner typical of Mankot, Jasrota, and Jammu portraiture in the early eighteenth century, the artist composed the image by combining plan views (carpet and tray) with frontal representations (figure, bolster, hookah). This painting is ascribed to Jammu because of the uncolored buff paper background and the colors, which are more subdued than those used at Mankot and Jasrota. The sober palette creates a dramatic, yet sensitive, image.