The master and his pupil, Mughal India, 19th century Gouache and gold on paper depicting a sage with a nimbed face, kneeling on a carpet in front of a balustrade, a rosary in his hand. Opposite him, a young man in the same position, wrapped in an orange shawl and wearing a pink bonnet, his face nimbed, a fruit in his hand. Mounted as an album page with a painted border of a braid and a margin painted with modern textile motifs. Framed in katamkari micro-mosaic. Painting size: 15.2 x 8.8 cm Slight stains, two stamp marks in the sky, slight accidents.