Artist
Fakir Chand La
Fakir Chand La is an Impressionism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Fakir Chand Lal was the Mughal emperor’s bird painter who kept a tame hawk on his wrist while he sketched in the Delhi gardens. He aimed for feather-by-feather accuracy but fudged the night-jar’s eyes to make them look scared—because hawks actually attack live birds. See his “A hawk attacking a night-jar” (c. 1850) to watch a single brushstroke decide life or death.
Works by Fakir Chand La
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.