A VISIT TO A HOLY MAN

Lot 98
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 98 | A VISIT TO A HOLY MAN
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A VISIT TO A HOLY MAN

MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within gold and black rules and narrow gold-sprinkled buff borders, mounted within finely illuminated margins in polychrome and gold, the verso plain

Painting 3 7⁄8 x 2 1⁄8in. (10.2 x 5.4cm.); folio 12 1⁄8 x 7 ¾in. (31.3 x 19.9cm.)





Provenance

Rothschild Collection, Paris, early twentieth century

Colnaghi, Persian and Indian Painting, London, 1976, p. 218, no. 108



Literature

Toby Falk, Rothschild Collection of Mughal Miniatures, exhibition catalogue, London, 1976, no. 108, p.218
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