Banquet of women in a garden, folio from a manuscript of Nezâmî's Khamseh, story of Khosrow and Shirîn, India, provincial Mughal style, 17th-18th century Manuscript folio on paper illustrated with a gouache enhanced with gold depicting Shirîn, her face shrouded in flames, kneeling under a canopy in a garden and surrounded by servants, one of them fanning her, others bringing her food from among those laid out on the ground. In the foreground, musicians around a fountain. Painting framed by a four-column text inscribed in Persian nasta'liq in black ink. 25 lines of text on the back. Page size: 27.9 x 16.4 cm; painting size: 17.7 x 10.6 cm A few tears, folds, stains, polychrome shifts, minor restorations and overpainting, right-hand part of folio reinforced. Provenance : Former François Barillet - Lequenne collection.