Portrait of Nawab Sabourland Khan, India, Delhi, 18th century Gouache and gold on paper depicting a bearded man wearing a turban and kneeling to the right on a terrace. He is dressed in an orange jama with a floral design, fastened with a belt. Mounted as an album page with a red border and a painted margin of gilded vegetal scrolls pigmented with pastel green and pink, with cartouches and illuminated fleurons on a beige or blue background glued on top. Several labels on the back of the frame: extracts from catalog entries numbered N° 20.375-4.I53, name and number of a Cluzel deposit 029/5 and French customs stamp. Page size: 26.6 x 16.6 cm; painting size: 16.6 x 9.2 cm Very worn painting, folds, holes, missing polychromy, some overpainting, painting mounted on cardboard. Provenance : Former Nourhan Manoukian collection (Constantinople 1906 - Paris 1993). By descent. The margin of this album page is known from several other works of Islamic book art offered for public sale, such as two pages sold at Ader Paris on July 2, 2024 (lots 193 - 194) and a Persian drawing sold at Sotheby's, Paris, Pierre Le Tan sale, March 17, 2021, lot 334. Others are held in national collections, such as two Indian pages OA 7139 and AOR 4236 from the Musée du Louvre.