A PORTRAIT OF A EUROPEAN LADY
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1740
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a lady wearing a floral studded gold hat framed inside a jaroka-style window with hanging textile above and floral border below, mounted on card
4 3/8 x 2¾in. (11.2 x 6.9cm.)
Lot Essay
For a very similar portrait of a lady attributed to circa 1740 in the India Office Library, see Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London, 1981, pl.182, p. 423.