A prince with his mistress on a day-bed, attributable to a master of the Kotah School, probably painter C, Kotah, circa 1720-30

brush and ink heightened with white on paper, laid down on buff paper

Nawab Mir Sir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad (r.1911-50)
Edward Suren, London
Acquired in 1967

In fairly good overall condition, light creasing, minor losses to leaf edges, tear to upper right leaf edge, as viewed.
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In recent years Professor Milo C. Beach has thoroughly reassessed early painting from the Rajasthani state of Kotah and has re-assigned many of the paintings and drawings previously attributed to the artists termed 'the Kotah Master', 'The Master of the Elephants' and others to a group of artists identified by him as Painters A, B and C, representing an evolution of master styles at the Kotah school. The present drawing would accord most closely with the style of Painter C. For a thorough discussion of this new research see Beach in Beach, Fischer and Goswamy 2011, vol.I, pp.291-304, vol.II, pp.459-478.