Couple under an archway, India, Deccan, early 19th century Gouache and gold on paper depicting a couple standing and embracing, the man dressed in a white jama and wearing a plum turban, the woman dressed in a golden skirt with floral motifs, her head and shoulders covered with a transparent muslin veil. The couple stands before a hilly landscape under a poly-lobed archway resting on columns with lotiform bases and capitals, flanked by panelling painted with animals in landscapes. Mounted as an album page on cardboard painted with a margin decorated with golden palmettes alternating with rosettes dotted with red pigments. At the top, the margin is inscribed in Persian "Raja Kashn [?] Rani Maharani". Framed. Page size: 38.2 x 29 cm; painting size: 23 x 15.5 cm Some wear, a few repaired accidents, a large woodworm hole in the margin, small stains. Exhibition: Miniatures orientales de l'Inde, Galerie Soustiel, Paris, May 1973, no. 62 (reprod. p 65.)