Khizr - Public domain portrait painting

Muslim sage Al-Khizr as shown in a Mughal era manuscript miniature.
Kept in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inventory number IS.48:12/A-1956.
Opaque watercolour on paper. Central painting 14 cm x 8.5 cm.
The painting is in a double frame on a page with floral and foliated scrolling patterns and outlines in gold, white black and a pale blue ruled outer line on the main border (now shown).
It is part of the Small Clive Album of Indian miniatures, thought to have been given by Shuja ud-Daula, the Nawab of Avadh, to Lord Clive during his last visit to India in 1765-67.
Sold from Powis Castle at Sotheby's sale, 16 to 18 January 1956, lot 332A.

Literature: Leach, Linda York, Mughal and Other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, London, 1995, vol. II, No.6.239, p.662.