The brief was reverence without crowding: Bani Thani is the single most idealized profile in Indian miniature, and the temptation is always to gild her to death. We chose the Kishangarh central-portrait because the school built its whole reputation on this one face — the impossibly arched eye, the fish-curved brow, the long sloping nose — and that ideal needs room and a soft ground, not a busy durbar. So she stands centre under a multi-lobed arch lifting a lotus to her face, with only a single cypress and a low garden wall behind, and a small attentive cast kept to the lower corners. The malachite-green ground and the pink lotus border do the talking; the line does the rest. What we left out — heavy gold leaf, a packed terrace, restless ornament — is exactly what keeps the profile readable as the hero.