Details
- Title : AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA
- Classification : Painting
- Medium : Opaque watercolor on paper
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : CIRCA 1775
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 693
- Lot Essay : The present and following lot come from dispersed Nepalese versions of the Bhagavata Purana, which chronicles the ten avatars of Lord Vishnu, each of whom must save the world from danger, destroy the wicked and protect the virtuous.
- Price realised : USD 16,250
- Estimate : USD 12,000 - USD 18,000
- Provenance : Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 10 April 1973 *Collection of Baroness Guy de Gunzburg (1926-2016), Virginia