Two captioned portraits, Mughal India, late 18th century Pigments and gold on album pages each depicting a full-length man on a plain background under a colored sky, with his name captioned in Arabic in black ink and nagari in gold in a buff margin around a double orange and verse frame. The first, 'Itimad al-Dawla, with a graying beard, faces right, a roll of paper in his hands. He is wearing a pale green turban with gold decoration, a yellow jama held by a belt, and a red shawl on his shoulders. The second, Khwajah Abu al-Hasan, faces left, with a long cane in his right hand. He wears a turban and a green jama with golden motifs belted over yellow pants. Total size : 42,5 x 28,3 cm ; painting : 15,7 x 9,4 cm Chips, folds and slight accidents, important repaints, reinforced cardboards on the back. Mirza Ghiyas Beg or 'Itimad al-Dawla was an important public figure in the Mughal Empire and was appointed Prime Minister to Emperor Jahangir from 1611 to 1622. Abul-Hassan (1569-1641) was appointed by the Jahangir Emperor Asaf Khan and was the Grand Vizier of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Another portrait of him is kept in the Louvre Museum under the inventory number OA 7163. As with lot 214, a provenance from the Royal Collection of Mewar may be suggested by the devanagari line inscribed in gold in the lower margin of each of these pages, which are otherwise reinforced on the back by a textile net. Two Mughal Portraits, India, late 18th century