A PRINCE LISTENS TO A MUSICIAN AT NIGHT, MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a young prince leaning against a bolster listens to a musician playing a stringed instrument, laid down on card, within black and white rules and orange margins, the reverse with two lines of verse in black nasta'liq in clouds reserved against a green and gold ground, mounted, framed, glazed
Painting 53⁄8 x 71⁄2 in. (13.7 x 19.2 cm.); folio 63⁄8 x 43⁄4 in. (16.3 x 12.1 cm.)

Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.

Provenance

Private Collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1999