TWO PORTRAITS: AN ELDERLY INDIAN RULER AND A COURTLY LADY ON PALATIAL TERRACES
Mughal Provincial School, Northern India, mid to late 19th century
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, comprising the portrait of an Indian ruler in old age, reminiscent of some depictions of Shah Jahan in his final days, sitting on a white floor spread on a palatial terrace, resting against a large gold-embroidered bolster, holding a rosary necklace with pearls in one hand, the painting backed with cardboard and a fragment of an old printed newspaper, a printed vegetal border pasted onto the painting itself, 13.8cm x 13.7cm; and the portrait of a courtly lady seated in a similar context to the previous painting, with essence bottles in front of her, an inscription in black ink nasta'liq script at the bottom of the page reading Nur Jahan Beghum, the recto with a note in pencil Empress Nur Jahan, consort of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, Lucknow, 19cm x 13cm.
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