Lot Essay
Another later version of this painting was sold in these Rooms, 12 October 1978, lot 152.
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MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1680
Details
THREE SEATED MEN BEFORE A FAKIR
Mughal India, circa 1680
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a young musician holding a sitar and two men in white seated in front of a dervish in a landscape, mounted on card with buff margins
Folio 10¾ x 7 7/16in. (27.3 x 18.9cm.); miniature 7 3/16 x 4 9/16in. (18.3 x 11.6cm.)
Mughal India, circa 1680
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a young musician holding a sitar and two men in white seated in front of a dervish in a landscape, mounted on card with buff margins
Folio 10¾ x 7 7/16in. (27.3 x 18.9cm.); miniature 7 3/16 x 4 9/16in. (18.3 x 11.6cm.)
Provenance
Nowlakah, Calcutta, 1968
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