A COURT GATHERING WITH MUSICIANS North Western India, late 19th – early 20th century Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting an interior scene with a crowned ruler embracing a courtesan, entertained by two musicians, one playing the sitar and the latter, bull-faced, playing the bells, a standing attendant with a peacock feathers fan cooling them off, another attendant entering the scene from a yellow door, the architecture typical of Rajasthani paintings, at the top of the composition on an ochre yellow ground an inscription in black ink Devanagari script dedicated to Shri Ragu, framed within black and orange borders with white ruling, 30cm x 22cm.