LUCKNOW, INDIA, CIRCA 1810

Likely by the same hand as the previous lot, this painting depicts Asaf al-Dawla, recognisable under his blue parasol, taking part in a tiger hunt alongside his courtiers. The European figures on the right can be associated with those depicted in Johann Zoffany’s painting Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match’, now in the Tate Gallery, London. The figure in the red jacket, for example, could very well be Colonel Mordaunt himself. Both the present lot and Zoffany’s celebrated painting are reminders of the cosmopolitan atmosphere which prevailed at the Lucknow court in the late eighteenth century.