Kedara Ragini, illustration of a Ragamala, Mughal India, probably Lucknow, 17th/18th century Gold and silver gouache on paper depicting an ascetic with a long white beard, long brown hair covering his shoulders and long curved nails, seated cross-legged on a lion skin on a terrace overlooking water and built with a small white cupola aedicule. In the background, several rocks, trees and other constructions can be seen on a hill. Mounted on an album page with several floral borders illuminated in gold and polychrome and a margin painted in gold with a floral frieze populated by birds on midnight-blue paper. Painting size: 16.2 x 11 cm; page size: 27.3 x 18.5 cm Wear and tear. Provenance : Sale by Me Gaston François, Collection de son Excellence Talmaz Khan Amine Mizan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 25, 1912, no. 56. The composition and mood of this painting are similar to a page from an 18th-century Mughal album featuring the same subject and preserved in the Musée du Louvre in Paris (AD 17442 B2).