Balchand

The Death of Inayat Khan by Balchand

Balchand (active from c.1595-c.1650) was a major Indian Hindu artist of Mughal painting, in the 17th century. He was noted for the dark realism of his paintings, a style he shared with his famous brother, the painter Payag. He was proficient in individual portraits and manuscript illustrations, his work was known for his empathetic quality and elegant detailing, like The Death of Inayat Khan.

References

  1. 1 2 Welch, Stuart Cary (1985). India: art and culture, 1300-1900. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. p. 248. ISBN 978-0030061141. If Murad's siege raised the spirits of his imperial patron, Payag's view of an episode in 1649, during the unsuccessful attempts to recapture strategic Kandahar must have lowered them. Although Murad was noted for his cheerful portrayals of grand events at court-and, we suspect, as a designer of architectural ornament, which he painted so inventively-Payag is admired for portraits of holy men and ravaged old soldiers, and for views of war in all its horror.
  2. ↑ "Painting by Payag - "Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org.
  3. ↑ Seyller, John (2011). "Balchand". Artibus Asiae. Supplementum. 48: 337–356. ISSN 1423-0526. JSTOR 23220236. Archived from the original on 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
  4. ↑ Smart, Ellen (1999). "The Death of Ināyat Khān by the Mughal Artist Bālchand". Artibus Asiae. Supplementum. 58 (3/4): 273–279. doi:10.2307/3250020. ISSN 1423-0526. JSTOR 3250020.