Collect༺ion of ෴Dr. William K. Ehrenfeld (1934-2005), San Francisco.

Acquired directly from the E𝔍hrenfeld collection by the current owner, August 1994.

A noblewoman in an Indo-European costume stands on a ꦅred floral-pattern carpet on a terrace. Her left arm is outstretched toward a black Chinese-style chair. A lake with s🌼mall boats and a distant landscape with green rolling hills in the distance. A cloudy dark sky tinged with gold above.

A Provincial Mughal painting with a similar composition of figures on a terraced pavilion over a landscape showing a lake, boats and a distant mountain💮 range i💃s in the collection of the British Museum, accession number 1939.164.

An album from the same period containing 42 folios including on🉐e oval vignette portrait depicting a very similar European lady with her curly blond hair pulled back and veiled in back is also in the British Museum (museum number 1920,0917,0.12.28).

Another painting from Awadh with a similarly dressed woman seated in similar style chair w♍as offered at Sotheby's London on 8th October 2014 lot 202. And another Awadh example with the same composition was sold at Sotheby's London 28th April 2004 lot 52.