Prince at a hunting encampment

Payag, attributed to

Prince at a hunting encampment. This group scene focuses on the couple in the centre: the prince with the wine cup, as the woman holds up a small saucer, suggesting that she has just offered the drink to him. While the others sit calmly, one other woman lies dismayed on the cushions beside them, perhaps in jealous reaction. Folio, colours and gold on paper, mounted on album page, a prince at an enclosed hunting encampment, sitting with a small group of men (on the left) and women (on the right), taking a wine-cup from the woman beside him, attributed to Payag, Agra, India, painting c. 1650-1660, album c. 1750-1800.