FAIZABAD OR LUCKNOW, NORTH INDIA, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

A closely related painting of Zib al-Nisa Begum watching fireworks in the collection of the Islamic Art Museum in Berlin, is attributed by Malini Roy to Lucknow or Faizabad, circa 1754-75, (India's Fabled City. The Art of Courtly Lucknow, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles and Paris, 2011, fig. 22, p. 172). This painting and lot 116 have similar inscriptions on the reverse and identical gilt margins which indicate that they come from the same album.