A prince visiting a Sufi hermitage, Mughal India, probably L - Lot 186

A prince visiting a Sufi hermitage, Mughal India, probably Lucknow, late 18th - early 19th century Gouache and gold on paper depicting an assembly of men seated in a circle on a terrace overlooked by a pavilion, in front of a landscape crossed by a river leading to architectural buildings visible on the horizon. The scene's protagonists include a young, turbaned prince with a nimbed face, accompanied by a guard armed with talwar and rondache, and three clerics, the two eldest in the center exchanging words. Painting mounted on an album page with a gilded floral border on a blue background, several colored and gilded borders and a margin decorated with colored floral stems. Number 3 inscribed in ink on the back in the lower left-hand corner. Framed. Painting size: 19.5 x 13.1 cm; page size: 39.1 x 26 cm A few polychromatic breaks, a few border accidents and an accident in the sky at top right, small folds and stains in the margins, small repaints. Provenance : Sotheby's sale, London, April 20, 1970, lot 13 Private Parisian collection, lots 166 to 193.