A PRINCE ENTERTAINED BY MUSICIANS

PROBABLY FAIZABAD OR MURSHIDABAD, INDIA, CIRCA 1780

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A PRINCE ENTERTAINED BY MUSICIANS
PROBABLY FAIZABAD OR MURSHIDABAD, INDIA, CIRCA 1780
Opaque and transparent pigments heightened with gold on paper, a noble figure is seated cross-legged smoking a water pipe listening to musicians set on a terrace overlooking a river, dark blue painted margins
Painting 8¾ x 11¾in. (22.3 x 29.8cm.); folio 9 7/8 x 12½in. (25 x 32cm.)

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Lot Essay

The composition of this scene is closely related to a depiction of Colonel Polier watching a Nautch attributed to Mihr Chand, Faizabad, circa 1773-74, (India’s Fabled City, The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles, 2010, fig. 26, p. 180). The rounded outlines of the facial features with their soft outlines and restrained colour palette is also similar to a portrait of Gurgin Khan smoking a waterpipe attributed to Dip Chand at Murshidabad in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, (inv. D.1180-1903, Arts of Bengal, Exhibition Catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1979, no. 87, p.48).

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