Page from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace Scene

Page from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace Scene

Pandit Seu

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The high quality of the drawings on this page suggests it was the product of one of the Seu family masters. The rendering of the various subjects, especially the horse and boars in motion, has a spontaneity and freshness of line rarely seen in finished paintings from this school.


Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Page from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace ScenePage from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace ScenePage from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace ScenePage from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace ScenePage from a Sketchbook Showing Rulers on Horseback, Boars, and a Palace Scene

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.