A Chinese Serow (Capricornis milneedwardsi argyrochaetes) ca. 1800 This masterfully painted Chinese Serow was completed by an anonymous painter in the region of Calcutta around the turn of the nineteenth century. At this time, officers of the British East India Company were actively commissioning Indian painters to document the flora and fauna of the region. The naturalistic treatment of the animal, a type of goat-antelope, follows the aesthetic approach Mughal artists had taken since the 17th century to communicate the wonder of the natural world. Company School paintings such as this one sat
A Chinese Serow (Capricornis milneedwardsi argyrochaetes) ca. 1800 This masterfully painted Chinese Serow was completed by an anonymous painter in the region of Calcutta around the turn of the nineteenth century. At this time, officers of the British East India Company were actively commissioning Indian painters to document the flora and fauna of the region. The naturalistic treatment of the animal, a type of goat-antelope, follows the aesthetic approach Mughal artists had taken since the 17th century to communicate the wonder of the natural world. Company School paintings such as this one satisfied the British taste – and political and economic incentive – for documenting the natural world, but also have been completed in a style and technique which is historically Mughal. The serow depicted here is an exquisitely rendered representation of a natural form, in isolation from a context or setting, allowing the viewer to focus on the detail of the A Chinese Serow (Capricornis milneedwardsi argyrochaetes). ca. 1800. Ink and watercolor on paper. Country of Origin India. Codices
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