Illustration of a Ragamala, Gujari Ragini, Woman addressing a peacock, North India, Amber or Jaipur, second half of the 18th century Gouache and gold on cardboard depicting a woman seated on a throne on the terrace of a pavilion, playing vina to a peacock doing a cartwheel. Around her, two attendants, one waving a morshal flycatcher above her head, and at the foot of the staircase leading to the terrace, two kneeling female musicians. Mounted on an album page with a wide red margin. On the back, black ink inscription in Persian nasta'liq and several handwritten or labeled numbers: H 206, 518 and 6/6 C 2. Painting size: 23.7 x 15.4 cm; page size: 30.3 x 22.4 cm Some ink and polychrome bleeding, small stains. This page is very similar in composition to a page in the Art Institute of Chicago (1962.147.26), attributed to Jaipur, circa 1745-70. Paris private collection, lots 166 to 193.