Jaipur School of Miniature Painting
Six generations of miniature painters from Jaipur. Since 1997 the family has painted, and taught, at the City Palace Museum in Jaipur, and its work has travelled to more than fifteen countries.
Part of The Marotia Familyमारोतिया परिवार · Head of the family
A six-generation legacy
A painting the size of a palm, and six generations behind every line.
The Marotia family paints in the Jaipur School of miniature painting: intricate detail, delicate brushwork, colours ground from stone, and ornament laid in gold — royal, historical and devotional subjects, painted the way the court painters of Jaipur painted them.
The craft has passed through six generations of the family, and through its women as well as its men. Today Vinit Kumar Marotia, the sixth generation, is teaching his son, so that what his father and grandfather taught him does not stop with him.
Since 1997 the family has painted in front of visitors at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum in the City Palace, Jaipur, by invitation — showing visitors from India and around the world how a miniature is made, one layer of stone colour at a time.
Meet the family
The lineage
Clarence House · 12 April 2006
When The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, as they then were, visited India in 2006, Vinit Kumar Marotia gave them a watercolour. Their Deputy Private Secretary wrote from Clarence House to thank him.
This will serve as a very happy and personal souvenir of an inspiring visit to your wonderful country.
Honours
Shilp Guru Award, Government of India
Babu Lal Marotia
UNESCO Seal of Excellence
Babu Lal Marotia
National Award, Government of India
Hari Narain Marotia
National Award, Government of India
Babu Lal Marotia
National Merit Certificate
Babu Lal Marotia
State Award, Government of Rajasthan
Hari Narain Marotia
State and District Level Award
Babu Lal Marotia
Kala Nidhi Award, Government of Haryana, Surajkund
Hari Narain Marotia
State Merit Award
Vinit Kumar Marotia
Certificates of honour
Exhibitions
The family's paintings, demonstrations and workshops have travelled across four continents.
Santiago, 2018
China, 2016 & 2017
Italy, 2017
Paris, 2015 & 2017
Peru, 2016
Switzerland, 2014
New York, 2013
Hong Kong
Argentina, 2008
City Palace Museum, Jaipur — since 1997
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai — Treasures of India, 2025
Crafts Museum, New Delhi
Surajkund Mela, Haryana
Delhi Trade Fair, New Delhi
The culture
जयपुर शैली
किशनगढ़ शैली
The art
The family paints the way the court painters did: with colours ground from natural stone, bound and laid on handmade paper, and lit with gold and silver.
Natural stone colours
Pigments prepared from natural stone, the colours of the old court painters.
Red gold leaf
Beaten gold, for jewels, borders and the haloes of Jaipur portraits.
Natural babul gond
Gum from the babul tree: the binder that holds the colour to the paper.
Handmade paper
The ground the whole painting is built up on, layer by layer.
From the family archive
The works
Commissions are open
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