Full-length raja, India, Mughal India, 19th / 20th century (painting), Deccan, Golconde or Bijapur, 17th century (margins and illuminations) Gouache and gold on paper depicting a full-length raja in profile, facing left, dressed in a white jama over yellow pants, a talwar attached to the embroidered belt tied around his waist. He wears a turban and holds a cane in his hand. Portrait mounted as an album page on a cardboard page with a braided gold border and a margin illuminated with a vegetal decoration populated with animals in gold leaf. The reverse features a panel illuminated in gold using the same technique as the margin surrounding the portrait, with long-feathered birds in dense foliage and flowers on a midnight-blue background. Red border lines and cream-colored margin with stamp residue at bottom. Framed. Dim. total: 17.2 x 11 cm; dim. painting: 11 x 5.4 cm; dim. illuminated panel: 11.3 x 5.5 cm Small stains, polychrome and gilding marks, wormholes filled in and handwritten notes scribbled in pencil on the spine, traces of adhesive, remainder of binding textile at the edges. Bibliography: HAIDAR, Navina Najat, SARDAR, Marika, Sultan of Deccan India 1500 - 1700 Opulence and Fantasy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015, cat. 105 p. 212.