A PAINTING OF VISHNU
NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY
The four-armed deity standing in a temple structure at the centre, flanked by Lakshmi and Garuda on either side, with seated devotees outside the temple, surrounded by other four-armed gods with eight nagas in a sea below and donors identified by an inscription at the bottom
35 x 20 ½ in. (89 x 52 cm.)
Details
- Title : A PAINTING OF VISHNU
- Classification : Painting
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 17TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 124
- Lot Essay : Compare with an 18th century painting of Vishnu Shrine with a very similar iconographic composition (P. Pal, The Arts of Nepal, Vol II: Painting, 1978, pl.120).
- Price realised : USD 5,250
- Estimate : USD 5,000 - USD 7,000
- Provenance : The Van Der Wee Collection, Belgium, acquired in February 1978
- Literature : L. and P. Van der Wee, A Tale of Thangkas: Living with a Collection, 1995, pp.141-143, fig.66
- Exhibited : De Taal van de Thangka, Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, 1995