Painting on canvas of Chandra

Details

  • Title : Painting on canvas of Chandra
  • Year : 1525
  • Classification : Paintings
  • Medium : Cloth,dye,gold paint
  • Dimension : h 74 cm × w 59 cm: carrier: h 106 cm × w 69 cm
  • Accession No : Item number: AK-MAK-325
  • Country/ Geo-location : NEPAL
  • Period : On loan from the Association of Friends of Asian Art (bequest by Paulus Spies, 1964)
  • Collection : Rijksmuseum
  • Acquisition Method : 1972 loan
  • Origin : Bequeathed by Paulus Spies to the Association of Friends of Asian Art, 1964; {Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972
  • Documentation : *Two Buddhist paintings from Nepal: Museum of Asian Art, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , Pratapaditya Pal *Karel R. van Kooij, "Constellations: Anthropomorphic representations of the naksatras in India and Central Asia", Asian Art 38 (2008), no. 4, p. 92, fig. 1-2. *KR van Kooy, 'Religion in Nepal', in Iconography of Religions, Section XIII, Leiden 1978, pl. XLVIII.