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DELHI OR AWADH, PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, NORTH INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the nimbate couple with clasped hands on a terrace accompanied by female attendants, within narrow gold and polychrome borders, laid down on an album page with wide buff margins decorated with large single flowering plants, the lower margin with an identification inscription in black nasta'liq within a cartouche and a red stamp in the lower right corner, the reverse plain, mounted, framed, glazed, the reverse of the frame with old inventory numbers and exhibition labels Painting 7 5/8 x 5 ?in. (19.3 x 14cm.); folio 17 x 11 5/8in. (43.2 x 29.2cm.)
The tale of Yusuf and Zulaykha was a common subject for artists working in Delhi and Lucknow in the late 18th century. The fur-lined hats and dresses of the figures are reminiscent of a painting by Faizullah, an Awadhi artist active during the 1760s and 1770s, which depicts the women of Egypt cutting their fingers whilst peeling oranges when they first catch a glimpse of Yusuf (Markel and Gude, 2011, no.24, p.173). Album pages with broad borders comprising single large flowering plants, similar to the present lot, were also being produced in Delhi towards the end of the 18th century. For comparison see Falk and Archer, 1981, no. 230; and Christie’s South Kensington, 11 April 2014, lot 71.