Album of Indian/Mughal portraits and mythological scenes
(?)The Hindu Goddess, Durga
Aurangzeb, 6th Mughal Emperor (Abul Muzaffar Muhiu 'd-Din Muhammad)
{all these images have been spliced together from screenshots and were
very lightly cleaned in the background of spots and library stamps}
A small, unnamed ~18th century album of pencil and watercolour sketches is hosted online among the prints and photographs in Gallica, the digitised collection at Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The subjects - Mughal emperors and Hindu gods - originate in the Indian subcontinent, and the BNF assesses the date range of the drawings at between the early 1600s and late 1700s (ie. they don't know). It seems likely that more than one artist was involved and a few of the works were never taken much further than the preliminary sketch stage. About the only thing known for certain is that this album was once owned by 19th century French polymath Egyptologist, Émile Prisse d'Avennes, whose works have been featured here previously: Classical Egypt & L'Art Arabe.
Also previously, and more on point: Mughal Royal Lineage & Memoirs of Babur || India
Mughal Empire article at Wikipedia.
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